Dartmoor

This series of images were part of my MA work where I was exploring the notions of memory, self and nature. My childhood holidays were often spent on Dartmoor and here I revisited some of those places to unearth my memories as an adult. Each photograph was taken the morning after a full moon. The resulting negatives were then buried for a lunar month and then dug up and printed. During the process the gelatine on the surface of the film was eaten away by the microbes in the soil, resulting in these rather war-torn images, with the land making its mark on the actual negatives, marking and scarring them like our memories.