This series is a look at what we construct, what we destroy and what we save. The places themselves take on an ephemeral nature as their current use is so separated from their original purpose. In a sense the images are capturing the history and also attempting to personalise our response. The boxer was found in an excavated building site in Rome. In situ, a forlorn object. It is difficult for people to respond the same to the visual narrative of a photograph. Each will bring their own story and overlay it on the images presented and indeed interpret it through the prism of their own experience. The photographic process here is one of continual diffusion and destruction, echoing the objects. The Grand Tour is a response to the made landscape of Italy and how after so many centuries our view is not so removed from the ones seen by much earlier travellers, and most documented by the Romantics. The difference now is the democratisation and the relevant ease travel has become for so many, and perhaps the intensity of the experience.
“Photographs are intrinsically historical; they necessarily capture a specific and fleeting moment of time. And making a photograph has much in common with the practice of crafting a history.”