Outlook [Views from the North East] ‘Outlook’ reflects on the landscape of the North East over the last 10 years, mapping my time living in North Shields. Over this period the country and this north easterly region of England has encountered a number of challenges from Brexit, the pandemic and the looming environmental crisis.
These film-based photographs obliquely reference cultural, and environmental forces manifest in man made structures.Abandoned shipyards, obsolete military architecture, fortified embankments - symbols of defence, power and vulnerability are situated next to images of leisure activities on the beaches of North Tyneside and Northumberland.
Architecture and landscape are both object of and subject for the gaze accompanying human contemplation and reflection which adopts two vantage points – outward towards the horizon and continental Europe or inwards towards the vernacular structures and topography of the north east coast.