Local resident and photographer John Callaway gives us a glimpse into Portsmouth’s hidden places with his stunning photography. This week John returns to Farlington Marshes and muses not on the natural environment, but on the concrete that surrounds it.
Farlington Marshes is pretty much on my doorstep, being just over a mile away from home. Over the years, I’ve written about and photographed various aspects of the marshes, ranging from coastal squeeze through to ruminations about the sequencing of images and several other detours on the way. So, why not talk about concrete?
Or we could wonder whether the slowly crumbling concrete and brick bunker is emblematic of the present mechanisms of government here, and across the other side of the Atlantic…
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