Walker Evans began his photographic career in the late 1920s, taking shots on his trip through Europe. Upon his return to the USA he published his first images in 1930 and went on to document workers and architecture in the Southeastern states. His portfolio, “Beauties of the Common Tool”, was published in 1955 by Fortune Magazine. This work showed the “offbeat museum show for the man who responds to good, clear ‘undesigned’ forms” that are the basic work tools including scissors, pliers, and trowels.

Darren Harvey-Regan believed that photographs do not exist just to show things, but are physical things that become objects themselves. He began 58 years after the publishing of Walker Evan’s portfolio shown above and used his images to create new and more abstract creations. He pulled Evans’ photos apart and cross matched them with each other to create unusual and interesting images.

His further works include “The Halt”, a photographed axe held to the wall by a real axe to create the illusion that it becomes part of the image; and “The Erratics”, a series of images that show differently shaped pieces of chalk with both organic and geometric lines and shapes carved within them or to match their surroundings.