The ground beneath our feet, the surface that we stand on either urban or landscape, is a subject for photographic enquiry.
Photographs are collected, collated and published as a collection, as in the series '24 Streets' and 'SandMap'. Or, multiple photographs are taken of a single tract of land and digitally merged together.
The methodology is to orientate the camera at right-angles to the subject. It is a familiar viewpoint when we look downwards. The lack of perspective tends to abstract the images, often revealing patterns and processes.
Subjects other than ground surfaces lend themselves to this methodology:
'PostTops' is an on-going collection of photographs of the tops of (generally wooden) posts ubiquitous in the rural landscape.
Lengths of tree stems that I call 'TreeLines'.
And photographing at spatial intervals the surface of a Scottish river from source to sea.
A Geographical Positioning System device logs the coordinates of each image. The imagery is both documentary and scientific.
Printing uses the giclee process on a fine art paper.
Chris Andrews lives in Scotland and exhibits in studios and galleries.
He studied Drawing and Sculpture at Morley College, London and Landscape Architecture at the University of Greenwich