Today, I experimented further with the New Topographics movement by updating my knowledge and understanding of it; refreshing my memory then taking a trip out in the playground/car park of the school as I was aware this had many opportunities for me to capture the ugliness and dullness of the mess which is hidden behind the school but attempt to find it’s indirect, inner beauty.

This shoot focuses particularly on the nuts on bolts of New Topography – capturing imagery of the man-altered landscapes of our world – landscapes which have no direct beauty or meaning to them, including objects like bins, glass bottles, broken fences and graffiti. I wanted it to be the simplicity of the each image, in the way it was taken that provokes the thoughts of viewers.

I took all of these images of my iPhone 6S and what I wished to achieve was a photographic contrast between natural landscapes and man-made features obstructing the beauty of them or perhaps vice versa – the natural landscapes adding another perspective to the inanimate, lifeless man-made features. The not-so-great quality of my iPhone camera compared to that of a professional Canon adds to the effect of dullness that is received on this windy and miserable day.