Gladstone – Pits and Pots

The wonderful architecture of this last complete Victorian Pottery Museum in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent encapsulates the pottery scene during the Industrial Revolution. The pottery and coal industries worked together in producing the coal to fire the kilns to the creation of English fine bone china.

Time and Place

The Elm, Alder and Poplar trees in this wood have suffered from disease, been relatively short lived, and have had their roots rotted by flood water. They have fallen where they have stood. Out of this ruinous process has evolved a floor of moss-covered shapes creating a valuable wildlife environment for invertebrates, mosses and lichens. Time has shaped this wood and is evident everywhere.

Camden Portraiture

These Camden Market traders were kind enough to take part in a project about spontaneous portraiture. Signs of their characters are etched onto their faces. Through photographing them with a deadpan pose, I wanted subtle nuances in their facial expressions to show how they responded when being photographed.