Before embarking on this project all my landscape
photography had been in the countryside and I was increasingly
aware I was making images of industrial landscapes. A result was
Lost Labours, images of the abandoned Leominster - Stourport Canal.
One evening in 1988 I went for a walk in the Black
Country, and I realised my next work would be of this urban landscape,
and made a decision to spend 5 years exploring and photographing
the area, with a view to exhibiting the images.
With the increasing moves to redevelop brown-field
sites many areas of open land in the Black Country, abandonded
after industrial use, are beginning to disappear. "In Search of
Agenoria" was a reponse to this, and shows the transient nature
of an urban landscape.
A Map overview is provided, and its hyperlinks are
one way to take you to the exhibition photographs and the background
research materials, text and images which make up this site.
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Why Agenoria?
The historical background to the title.
In
Search of Agenoria
The Exhibition - 62 images.
Location of the Stour Valley
Stour
Valley Map in 17C & 18C
Image Map.
Sponsors
Camera In Action
Equipment used.
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