Work in progress; long term project researching the UK/ France border & what is often termed by the UK press ‘small boats’ migration.
The traces left in sand dunes after zodiac dinghies are buried and then dug out to be used in attempts to cross the English Channel. Prayer pieces blown and scattered then glued into the sand. Dog paws crushing them into the wet.
Objects and spaces of aftermath act as evidence and portraits of past presence.
Exploring photography’s role as collector of ‘evidence’ and as an inherently extractive & colonial medium. How can it represent a border zone within these limitations?
Part of an ongoing series mapping human traces on the earth. The land can act as a living witness of the ‘criminal’ event. It can also hold the memory of the hopes and anxieties of those who try to make this perilous journey. Through photography’s simultaneous ability to transmit evidence and metaphor.
This work comprises different stories which overlap, clash and sometimes contradict; like the true crisis of complexity on the Côte d'Opale.