James Clark explores the fringes of the urban environment, examining the objects and marks that we, as a species, are leaving behind. These liminal places bear the subtle and often oblique scars of man’s consumption, reflecting the frayed edges of our society and alluding to the complex relationship that exists between ourselves and the land.
Elsewhere is influenced by the long history of landscape photography, but in particular by shifts that occurred in the mid-1970’s that prompted a renewed critical analysis of the Man-Altered Landscape. However, Clark has taken a far more allegorical route, distancing himself from such structured formal aesthetics and exercising a degree of freedom in embracing chance encounters.