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Mark Cocks |
These images are taken from a comprehensive photographic study of my father's garden and allotment, produced during twelve monthly visits, over the calender year.
My intention was to produce my own imagistic response to this very personal and intimate space. During the year, the natural process of growth and decay was an ever present spectacle which formed an important element of the documentation process, but the illustration of un-noticed moments and objects within the environment became the dominant feature of the project.
This search for aesthetic instances developed the project into a fresh contemporary view of a traditional and quite familiar urban space.
It is this potential for photographic imagery, to isolate a common scene from an aesthetic perspective thus encouraging the viewer to re-evaluate it, that formulates my own photographic practice.
This body of work has been published as an article and front cover by The Independent on Sunday Magazine, shown in The Photographers Gallery Print Room as well as in group exhibitions. Elements of the work have also been published by The New Scientist, Country Living, Virgin Records and as advertising for American garden centres.
Other exstensive commissions and publications have been produced for The New Scientist, Penguin Books, Routledge, Harper-Collins, The Sunday Times, Faber & Faber etc.
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