A Walk #33 ‘Feel the carvings in the tree’
A Walk #23 ‘Through the bleak and early morn’
A Walk #4 ‘As the fog clears from the sand’
A Walk #14 ‘You’re voice was such a welcome sound’
A Walk exhibited in 2020 at Skärgårdsbutiken in Espoo, Finland.
The photographs in A Walk were originally created during a walk in Edinburgh, Scotland on the cusp of summer 2016 using 135mm colour negative film. The images follow a circular route from Bruntsfield to Morningside, with sites photographed in the Greenhill area and the Hermitage of Braid and Blackford Hill Local Nature Reserve. Throughout the four years I lived in Edinburgh, I regularly walked parts of this route and became part of my weekend routine or whenever I need to take a small pause from the hurry and worries of the day-to-day.
The series however pictures new and unexpected details I discovered during what would become my last walk through the areas. A Walk also explores how the physical intervention of people affects and interacts with nature and how the subtle signs resulting from these interactions create a dynamic between cultural and natural landscapes. The series also reminds us to slow down and appreciate the environments we inhabit and interact with and urges us to take a walk and rediscover nature and perhaps ourselves. The series is a love letter and farewell to the places I regularly visited during the four years I lived in Edinburgh and still consider home.
The series is currently being developed into an accordion-style photobook. The secondary titles of each image refer the song ‘The Wolves and the Ravens’ by Rogue Valley. The song inspired the creation of the project, as I listened to the song almost exclusively during my many walks and subsequently when I processed the images afterwards.
Thirty-four images in total as pigment prints and as a concertina-style book and flip book.