More interesting to me was the greater mass of the plain itself Europe’s largest remaining chalk plateau and host to agriculture, archaeology, and military training.
Bronica SQ A Zenzanon S 150mm ILFORD FP4 PLUS Salisbury Plain is best known as the location of Stonehenge, probably the world’s most famous prehistoric monument, but this is just a tiny part of the landmass of Salisbury Plain itself a neolithic punctuation mark on the southernmost edge of the plain. Could I find an editorial angle that would create a set of images with a common look, feel and theme?Īnd so the Salisbury Plain project (working title Beyond the Stones) started to emerge as a strong contender. I’d never knowingly shot a landscape and wondered if I could take an approach different from the modern (mostly digital) norm of super-saturated colours and whooshy waterfalls. I needed to push myself into an area I’d never worked before. Having a think about where I wanted to go next, I decided I needed a different kind of challenge. Given the length of time the construction planning process has taken, it’s also now the longest-running drive-in photographic exhibition.īut the securing of that site meant I was without a personal project and I was in need of something new.
It looked a bit quiet during the first lockdown in 2020.Īs the images are displayed on hoardings facing a car park, I like to claim that it’s the world’s first drive-in photographic exhibition.