Experience has taught me again and again that you can never know what lies beneath a surface or behind a facade. Our sense of place, our understanding of photographs of the landscape, is inevitably fraught with misreading.

Joel Sternfeld

Some might see this as a reason not to try – I like to think of it as a challenge. In Fe2O3 I try to understand what has happened to the steel and iron working sites of west Cumbria, by juxtaposing panoramic landscapes with photographs of artefacts and stray object found on the sites, and with short quotes and snatches of my own thoughts.

If you’re interested in seeing more, why not visit my Blurb bookstore: Fe2O3