Grain is an ongoing exploration of the Isle of Grain in Kent - a place full of old and new industry, empty spaces, abandoned land, and the kind of sharp angles and brutalist concrete that feel like they belong to another country or time. I photograph the built environment, the gas storage, power stations, sea defenses, historic structures at the mouth of the Thames, and the way nature is slowly taking it all back. In bright light, the compositions are geometric and stark. In fog and rain - which is how the place often reveals itself - they become atmospheric, shapes dissolving into weather. This is as close as I get to landscape photography, shot in high-contrast black and white to communicate how the place feels to me. Some places don't feel natural in good weather, they come alive in winter. The materials, proportions, and colors of Grain belong to the cold and wet. I return once a year, always in winter. It's a very empty place, even with the housing estates - often I'm the only person on the streets. One day I might make portraits there, but for now it's just the structures, the silence, and the rain.
More pictures soon.