Morgan Masters

BA (Hons) Photography - Farnham

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Morgan employs photography as a tool to document the world as it changes around us, and open our eyes to changes we may not have known were happening. Inspired by a love of mapping and the landscape, Morgan document’s themes of land changes over the years, with a goal to allow people to revisit and re-document these places in years to come. Morgan’s focus on this documentation started early in his third year of university, when he became concerned with losses to the natural landscape that he had begun to bear witness to in earlier years of his degree, whilst previously focusing on aerial and landscape imagery. Inspired by the work of Fay Godwin, amongst others, Morgan turned to documenting the landscape as it is today before it is gone tomorrow.

Morgan’s newest work, ‘Documenting HS2’, takes place over many miles, documenting a series of images from London to Birmingham, showing the immense construction of HS2 along its route, presenting the landscape as we will never see it again.

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The remains of what was once an ancient hedgerow, Stoke Mandeville
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Fencing separates the path from the forest, Kenilworth
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A small rural house soon to be lost to the HS2 line, Chetwode
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HS2 line construction cuts through farmland, Cubbington
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A clear-cut forest awaits construction of the line, Brackley
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Welsh Rd encampments presence looms over the lines location, Offchurch