Shitehawk

Artist - United Kingdom

Artist’s Statement

Now semi-retired and living in England, from where he pursues his hobby of landscape photography. He combines his love of photography with a lifelong interest in travel and European culture.

This year (2007) he has spent nine weeks, in three visits, in France, visiting Vannes for the Festival International de la Photo de Mer in the Spring, Aubusson for the Tapestry festival in the Summer and Paris for the student riots in the Autumn, shooting more than two thousand images. The focus of his research lies in the forgotten landscape and the lives of the people who built our early transportation systems.

His practice utilises medium format and 35mm digital photography, digital video, historical text and images in an effort to provide an insight into a bygone age. His earlier work on disused railways looked at the remaining trace elements of the branch lines that were discarded during the 1960’s.

The Artist's latest work looked at the transport system that was killed off with the advent of the railway system and in so doing highlights a variety of sophisticated skills that were largely taken for granted in the day to day life of the typical navigator. He, of that itinerant army of rumbustious workers to whom a great debt is owed.