Rock Wood

Rock Wood is a photozine produced for my talk during The Moon Shore Photography Festival, organised by Picnic Gallery and Photobook Library in St. Leonards-On-Sea. I thought I would take the audience on a wander through Rock Wood, an area of woodland to the north east of Hastings. A wild wood with a weird and oppressive atmosphere - fallen trees block pathways, there’s a shrine to a dead dog and patched up wire mesh on the railway bridge suggests a final escape route. The mood is melancholic and menacing.

The whole walk is bookended by a burned out Ballardian crash. I imagine young joyriders getting their kicks from stealing cars and driving like loons through the country lanes, trying to escape some shitty existence, breaking the boredom by breaking cars, taking what they could never afford and living dangerously - for a moment living.

Rock Wood

48 pages 23 photographs

Cover 200gsm recycled silk

Content 150gsm recycled silk

100% recycled and recyclable