Contemporary Photographic Archaeology
How does mankind affect the places in which we reside and explore? What might we do to damage and repair a landscape? What traces do we leave in our wake? What stories do we leave for others to find?
Contemporary Photographic Archaeology sets out to explore the relationship between the land and how humans have interacted with it over the past 100 years. As humankind latterly recognises the impact our species has had and is still having on the planet, the work presented seeks to explore stories of our interaction with and use of places, and how these places are impacted, eroded, and affected by humankind’s presence in the landscape.
The photographers in this collective have come together as each has a story to tell of their examination of the places where they reside and explore. There are stories of house building and nature’s response, man’s impact on wildlife habitats, urban farming, ancient forests, edgelands and histories uncovered and repeated.
Whilst collectively, humankind dominates and controls much of the land and natural resources, as individuals we have agency in the choices we make, and the stories we tell. In this exhibition man’s recent impact on the land is explored in small stories at a local level. We trace the evidence of the time we live in and that of our recent past and ask whether in 100 years, the traces we leave now will be able to be found by later generations.
Contemporary Photographic Archaeology sets out to explore the relationship between the land and how humans have interacted with it over the past 100 years. As humankind latterly recognises the impact our species has had and is still having on the planet, the work presented seeks to explore stories of our interaction with and use of places, and how these places are impacted, eroded, and affected by humankind’s presence in the landscape.
The photographers in this collective have come together as each has a story to tell of their examination of the places where they reside and explore. There are stories of house building and nature’s response, man’s impact on wildlife habitats, urban farming, ancient forests, edgelands and histories uncovered and repeated.
Whilst collectively, humankind dominates and controls much of the land and natural resources, as individuals we have agency in the choices we make, and the stories we tell. In this exhibition man’s recent impact on the land is explored in small stories at a local level. We trace the evidence of the time we live in and that of our recent past and ask whether in 100 years, the traces we leave now will be able to be found by later generations.