Civic Parish Boundary
This series, Civic Parish Boundary, forms the first part of a larger work, A Sense of Place, looking at my home village of Felpham, in West Sussex.
In this Anthropocene era, the landscape we occupy is invariably encoded by history and culture; few places remain unchanged by the hand of man. This series explores ideas of “place” at a succession of points along the civic parish boundary of my home village. The photographs look at how the landscape has been adapted to the different facets of our lives; where we call home, where we learn, work, play – or simply stop and reflect.
Each photograph has a simple title – the Ordnance Survey grid reference of its location on the parish boundary.
These photographs are printed using archival pigment inks on Canson Platine Fibre Rag paper. Each is printed to an image size of 32 x 21.3cm on A3 paper.
The final photograph in the series acts as a visual counterpoint to the others, depicting the only view from the parish boundary that remains unperturbed by man – that of the sea:
