Featured in Afterzine

I recently received a very exciting invitation from Hamish Robertson to contribute some of my images to the very first issue of an American bi-annual magazine called Afterzine, focussing on arts and culture.

Hamish studied art, and used part of this first issue to invite different kinds of artists to interpret a theme he was given himself by an old tutor: Negative Space. I did not study art, and don't find these sorts of interpretive questions easy, but I came up with some suggestions that I thought could work.

This image of Down House in Kent (Charles Darwin's house) seemed to me to fit the brief because of its unusual crop: the focus of the image is, to my eyes, three solitary leaves in a tangle of bare branches, appearing only in silhouette hanging against an open and empty, but textured and colourful sky, while the actual landscape is tucked away at the bottom of the image.

It seemed to me that Wormholes were very appropriate with their emphasis on the central empty space, but this particular one of Gordale Scar in North Yorkshire, looking directly up through what was once the roof of an enormous cave, seemed to fit perfectly. The material that once enclosed the space can still be seen scattered all around the interior of the scar, which dwarfs the waterfall at the back of the structure (about 11 o'Clock in the image).

Hamish decided in the end what images to include and I was very excited to receive my copy through the post, and to see my name against all these amazing contributors.