This collection is an exploration of the landscape not merely as a subject, but as an emotional mirror.
My aim for the photographs was to document a personal anxiety: insignificance.
Set in places where nature thrives and human presence is fundamentally humbled by the sweeping scale of the Earth, this collection explores a relationship I first encountered high above the waters of Ullswater in the Lake District National Park.
Looking out towards an oncoming storm over the huge vista, I observed a tiny speck on the water below: a passenger ferry. To the scores of human lives on board, this ferry doubtless felt huge. But from my viewpoint, it had been reduced by the immense landscape to a nearly indistinguishable speck.
This was the spark that crystallised my own feelings; alone on a mountainside - a tiny speck about to be engulfed in a storm that cared nothing for me.
Through these images, I invite you to look closely, and feel the profound stillness of a world that continues to function entirely despite us.
In the shadow of the land