Peter Ainsworth

Last month I met with photographer Peter Ainsworth and was particularly taken by his two recent projects Concrete Island and Drowned World. 
Focused on traces of human activity within the urban landscape, Peter used sections of a wall supporting a flyover in north London to create suffocating and controlled images, where physical marks made by unconscious interactions defamiliarise the landscape; each view transformed into a painterly backdrop. Then we see the same location revisited, gradually being engulfed by water.      
Work from these projects will be featured in a group photography exhibition in the West End at the start of 2011.  Details to follow.