Road to Nowhere
by Henry Woide
The countryside around London is protected from development but that doesn’t mean it’s left free. Carved up into pockets of private land, it’s tightly controlled and managed, as are the people who visit it. This project conveys the land as an object, a space to be owned and contained within the four walls of the frame, and in doing so attempts to subvert the tradition of land ownership and champion the right to roam. Taken as if by a pastoral flaneur, these images are directed via signs and objects which show the consequences threatened for making a wrong turn. These photographs are like footprints, acting as a memory of the wanderings.
This series is part of the collective project Londons, The Polycentric City curated with Mass Collective as a collaboration between eight photographers documenting the growing satellite centres of the British capital and their urban identities from eight different perspectives, rejecting a single, monolithic view in favour of a fragmentary, multifarious mosaic.
Mass Journal 03
This issue presents Where The Flow Ends, an ongoing project by Mass Collective about water and how humans shape and alter its flow, set within the unique environment of the River Severn estuary.
Marking the boundary between England and Wales, the River Severn has seen nature and industry rise and fall over time. The project explores a place where raw and processed water flow against one another and poses the question of how we will choose to shape our future relationship with the river.
Featured Photographers: Caroline Charrel, Simon Kennedy, Andrew Meredith, William Morgan, Luca Piffaretti, Francesco Russo, Polly Tootal, Henry Woide
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First edition of 250
A5 size (148 x 210 mm)
52 printed pages, 130 gsm silk paper
Cover 170 gsm uncoated paper
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