This project was based largerly around looking at light, and at abandoned sites in Jordanstown, with 6 houses (also school/ university buildings) full of character, waiting tobe explored, and with some that I had yet to have the courage to venture into.This offered the perfect excuse to further my interest in the forgotten anddestroyed. I started out with the intention of capturing silhouettes andshadows of the features of the houses, of characters and objects that once inhabitedit. This was inspired by looking at the images from Hiroshima, of the shadowscast of objects and people at the moment of the explosion, shadows cast by theinstantly evaporated remains imprinted into concrete, and forever capturing asplit second in time, that changed the world as we know it. I wanted to capturea moment in the history of each house, that moment where everything was leftforever, where all life within it disappeared. This turned out to be moredifficult than expected, capturing shadows with very poor natural lightingconditions becoming almost impossible, and forcing me to rethink my idea. Theproblems the low light conditions caused actually inspired me to look atexactly that. What was left in almost complete darkness, lit by the sunlightflooding through the small cracks and openings created both natural, and byyears of vandalism and destruction. A collapsed roof had filled what would havebeen a pitch-black corridor with beautiful soft light, illuminating patches ofthe destructionand offering highly contrasted images of the light battling the darknesswithin. They are equal opposites and yet when brought together they createvisual masterpieces.

‘’In order for the light to shine so brightlythe darkness must be present’’.