Road to Nowhere

by Henry Woide

The countryside around London is protected from development but that doesn’t mean it’s left free. Carved up into pockets of private land, it’s tightly controlled and managed, as are the people who visit it. This project conveys the land as an object, a space to be owned and contained within the four walls of the frame, and in doing so attempts to subvert the tradition of land ownership and champion the right to roam. Taken as if by a pastoral flaneur, these images are directed via signs and objects which show the consequences threatened for making a wrong turn. These photographs are like footprints, acting as a memory of the wanderings.

This series is part of the collective project Londons, The Polycentric City curated with Mass Collective as a collaboration between eight photographers documenting the growing satellite centres of the British capital and their urban identities from eight different perspectives, rejecting a single, monolithic view in favour of a fragmentary, multifarious mosaic.