I am exploring the visual impact that wind farms are having on the landscape and the ambiguity that this impact is arousing in attitudes towards their appearance. I am also interested in looking at how the English countryside’s identity is being shaped and moulded by the emergence of wind farms. Rather than visually illustrating wind farms in a positive or negative light, I am instead allowing for different interpretations amongst my audience whilst exploring conventions of beauty and thus exploring what beauty evokes to different individuals.

I have been inspired by photographers who explore the aesthetisisation of negative issues such as Richard Misrach and Simon Norfolk, whom work with a notion of the sublime to illustrate darker issues such as the destruction of the environment. Lou Spence’s traditional imagery of the English countryside and Fay Godwin’s depictions on human intervention on the landscape have also provided inspiration for my project.