Preston Junkyard

What is it about construction, reconstruction, and deconstruction? Is it the stories in every piece of junk and rubble? The lives, the moments, the love and the loss? Is it the prospect of new beginnings? Does it reflect that nothing is finite? That as things fall or fade, others are brought to life? The romance of photography and its ability to encapsulate the magic in what may ordinarily be perceived as mundane will never cease to amaze me. The connection with these concepts through my analogue photographic practice is compelling. To see the moment, capture its enormity, and develop the negatives with my hands in the darkroom further amplifies the power of the still, resonating life past, present and future and the opportunities that abound. It should come as no surprise that I am a cup-half-full kind of person.

Zo Damage 2016, “Preston junkyard”, scan of 35mm negative