Concrete Island Discs (2011–ongoing)

Each week, BBC Radio magically renders distinguished people to desert islands with a handful of their favourite music discs. No mention is made of an electricity supply, never mind a recliner. The audience is asked to suspend quite a lot of disbelief.

By contrast, being marooned on Concrete Island is plausible. Potentially imminent. Your vehicle punctures at high speed—or pehaps you swerve to avoid the erratic driving of a fellow motorist. Out of control, you smash through a dilapidated guard rail, and plunge down a steep bank of earth. You wake to find yourself immured in a triangular pit beneath precipitous concrete: the urban motorway intersection. Despite a fractured leg and punctured lung, you plan your escape. But—having read JG Ballard’s book—you know it is hopeless. You have six bottles of white burgundy in the boot. And luckily, you’ve downloaded thirteen pieces of music to your phone (which of course has no signal) in anticipation of this moment.

Photograph made on Iflord HP5 5x4 sheet film in 2011.

Limited edition fibre based black & white silver gelatin prints:


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My current Concrete Island Discs playlist is available on Spotify.