Adam Salisbury

“With the first gray light he rose and left the boy sleeping and walked out to the road and squatted and studied the country to the south. Barren, silent, godless. He thought the month was October but he wasn’t sure. He hadn’t kept a calendar for years. They were moving south. There’d be no surviving another winter here.”

[Cormac McCarthy, “The Road”, Picador UK, 2006]

All my work revolves around the subject of landscape, particularly barren, disused spaces, both rural and urban. The photographs from this series are all taken in and around my home area of North Wales. The landscape of the region is something that has deeply affected me and is etched into my memory. These desolate, “forgotten” locations conjure up questions about who owned and inhabited such a landscape, as well as what previously went on at these seemingly derelict locations. The subject matter in the images acts as a reminder of previous human occupation or industrial activity, something that now seems to have deserted the landscape.