We live in difficult times. But sometimes taking the long view can help us make more sense of our present moment. I use my camera and my writing to explore the impact of time, and our impact on the environment and the world we live in.
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Insignificance
The only nuclear reactors ever built inside a national park stand on the banks of a manmade lake in Eryri. I came to photograph them. I left thinking about insignificance — theirs, and mine.
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Underwhelm
The UK’s largest solar farm covers a piece of land the size of a small English market town. So why did standing beside it feel so strangely empty?
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Ruins
I came back to Sizewell because I felt the first visit had left something unresolved. Walking the coast the following day, I found myself at the ruins of Leiston Abbey — and through the gap in its crumbling walls, the white dome of Sizewell B. Two monuments to belief, centuries apart.
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Framing
Every photograph is an act of framing — and framing is always an act of exclusion as much as inclusion. What we leave out of the frame shapes the story as much as what we include. The same, it turns out, is true of how we talk about climate change.
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Stacked
Photographs and reflections from a visit to the Port of Felixstowe — and what 152,000 shipping containers tell us about the world we’ve built, and the unexpected optimism to be found in it.
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Half Life
Photographs and reflections from a visit to the decommissioned nuclear reactors at Dungeness, Kent — and the questions they raise about progress, landscape, and what we leave behind.