Mark Brierley, Finding Your Path Pt.1 (Landscape (ATEP 2017))

After going through a sequence of events that changed my life forever. I found myself not sure of who I had become and the old me had been forgotten. I had to explore who I was again and where I wanted my photography to take me. I found myself in love with the Pilbara Region of Western Australia. It was in this area that I felt a sense of belonging again. You could say that I had found my place. Over the course of a year I undertook three separate trips to the region to develop a feel for the place and rediscover myself. As well as photographing the area, I wrote extensively in a journal as a way of helping work out my flaws and to be able to explain my emotions at the time of photographing different subjects. During this exploration, I found myself drawn to the abstract tones and patterns of nature. Looking for more than the usual landscape. I took influence from aerial images and applied the same fundamentals in terms of colour and shape to explore a different view of what a landscape is, whilst still retaining the abstract nature that Aerial Photography has given us. I would sit and wait for the right light, all the time in awe of how truly stunning this place was and the effect it was having on me. These are just six of my images that make up the series and I feel these best sum up what it was like and how I felt. They are my proudest images to date and really, that is all that matters to me.

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