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Fe2O3 – the book

07 Monday Oct 2019

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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.

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

Artefacts

01 Sunday Nov 2015

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Washed out of the slag banks, these artefacts are some of the decreasingly small number of items that retain a direct link to Workington’s industrial past. The processes of time and chemistry are etched into their surface.

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Colours – 1

26 Monday Oct 2015

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Iron slags and waste ore, salt water and sea air are a recipe for corrosion and all sorts of coloured compounds. More often than not these are muted, like the colours of the beach pebbles, but push the vibrance, contrast and saturation and you get the following results:

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