Transitions

Transitions is a photographic installation produced specifically for the exhibition Re-place (2008). It was developed from Heartlands (2006) as a four screen projection, It continues investigations into the nature of personal and national identities, with the focus on the dynamics of disruption and dislocation as a force in the shaping of new identities. Transitions, includes images from every coalfield site operating at the start of the miners strike. The photographs pose questions about the loss of manufacturing communities and the shaping of post-industrial Britishness. The disappearance of the mines from the British industrial landscape, now almost complete, has consigned to history, the great place names of coalmining. Today, in their wake come new developments, areas of urban and rural land tracts, renamed for contemporary, non-industrial communities.