I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
John Constable, painter (1776-1837) 

Although the photographs in Someone Else's, Somewhere were taken in Berlin they are not specifically about Berlin. Rather, the visual vernacular of this modern city is employed here to suggest spaces and situations that are common to many of our urban environments.

Drawing an analogue with Constable's work, these images look to the edges, the margins and to spaces of transition. However, pastoral scenes of hedges, cart tracks and bucolic streams have been replaced by their urban equivalents: scaffolding, hoardings and weed strewn tarmac.

Unlike Constable, the objective of the work here is not to transubstantiate the mundane to the sublime. Despite their lyrical qualities and suggestions of narrative they are primarily exercises in composition. Form, line, colour and tone, are contained within the parameters of the photographer's lens and rather than  presenting a restricted perspective they can be seen as a contained view of limited whole.

The exhibition Someone Else's, Somewhere was shown at The Mills Centre, London, in September 2015 and consisted of the above selection of 12 digital prints from 35mm negatives.