Evergreen (2021)

As my time at Leeds Arts University has drawn to a close, I wanted to share with you all the project that I started as part of my final module. Evergreen, is an on-going project of medium format photographs depicting a present day look at Great Britain’s Post War Tower Blocks and the greenery that surrounds them. This body of work explores how the communities which live in these buildings view the spaces between, whether they still serve as pockets of health and wellbeing or are merely patches of foliage. Evergreen explores the idea of ‘The Garden City’, a method of urban planning which saw self-contained communities surrounded by "green-belts" on a smaller scale. These photographs highlight the ‘building boom’ of the 40s to 70s and how Modernist architects like Le Corbusier influenced their design. The project’s title refers to foliage has remained green for multiple growing seasons, the notion being that the buildings and their greenery lasting longer than originally intended. The project is on-going and will be one I continue to develop for the next few years. Let me know your thoughts!