Continuing my collection of images of the glorious 'outside' which exists despite our inability or refusal to acknowledge it, I decided to drive my usual commute, rather than take the tube and train, thereby seeing the world like a film through my windscreen (as described by Paul Virilio in his essay 'Dromoscopy') but also to give myself a chance of stopping and taking photos at my leisure. The scenes of fields and hills have an Ansel Adams quality about them, and I decided to shoot some on black and white film. These are the countryside, unspoilt fields, trees, hills and mountains, smells, sounds of nature, endless skies, which simply register as the 'background' while we commute from one small space to another.
1.O’Neill, E.R. and Virilio, P. (1998) Dromoscopy,
or The Ecstasy of Enormities. Wide Angle.
Vol 20. No. 3.
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