In my Oasis project, like many photographers, I’m concerned with the empty spaces, often treated as ‘common ground’, that exist either side of urban development. These places are at best transitory and documenting them is working with an endangered species. British photographer John Davies has been working with OurGround to document these places as they are changing in Liverpool and Mersyeside.
If you follow this link you’ll find a number of John’s pics from the project.
From the Our ground site.
Our Ground is about public open spaces: parks, playing fields and other grounds in Liverpool, Merseyside and beyond. This site is also about the transition of public space with images, news and links to other sites concerned with the changes that are taking place. Photographs are regularly added to this site.
Many of the spaces shown on the site are not just wasteland that has been appropriated for common use, but land currently registered and used for community use. Playing fileds, both community and those owned by public (public as in ‘public’ not private) state schools have often been sold in order to finance other projects.
Whilst looking at John’s work, its worth checking out his other projects including ‘The British Landscape’ (can’t link to it for some reason). From a review by Open Democracy
John Davies’ beautiful panoramic photographs of the British landscape capture an industrial world now lost and a modernity running away from its past.
