(Ongoing project)

Offshore is a project documenting life past and present on the small islands of Britain. It is an investigation into the experience and feeling of ‘islandness’.

I took these photographs across a series of road trips, travelling alone by motorcycle and ferry, covering a total of 4,000 miles and visiting 17 islands from the west of Cornwall to the northern-most tip of the Outer Hebrides.

I photographed landscapes, structures and signs of life in each location I visited. Searching for the reason people have been drawn to these remote corners of the British Isles for millennia.

The result is a body of work that captures the sense of peaceful loneliness and reconnection to the elements and landscape I experienced as a solo traveller passing through these islands. Combining this with the feeling that, through their disconnection from the mainland world, these islands exist in their own separate space and time.