To The Sea

To The Sea is a series of landscapes and seascapes with their focus on a journey to the ocean. 

As a young person, passionate about photography, landscape photography was one genre of photography I was intensely bored by. Photography needed to tell stories about humans and their place in the world. What did I care for the beauties of the natural world if they told me nothing about the human condition? For many years my photography ignored the natural world and stubbornly focused instead on human behaviour. 

But at some point, and for reasons I don’t understand, my feelings changed. I came to realise the psychological nourishment provided by those natural spaces, and I felt a desire to document this feeling. Over and over I would stop and be moved by a scene in a moment, and I gradually admitted to myself that my younger self had been wrong to dismiss the natural world as an uninspiring subject for photography.

I’m drawn to natural spaces that feel the impact of human intervention, but are nevertheless still beautiful, and evocative of the moments and places that bring a sense of calm and tranquility. For me that is most often the sea. Hence, even when the sea is not there, I’m always on a journey towards it: the journey to the sea.