Landscape photography can communicate something of the very essence and mystery of the world about us, showing us a direct mirror into ourselves. Allegorically, manifestations of beauty and abstract ideas, that we find within nature, offer new meanings and perceptions that take us on a journey beyond the surface reality of life. Creative drives are a tool for contemplating life and understanding who we are.
Documentary photographs that explore the decline of the South Wales Mining Industry in the late 1980's. Artist and photographer, Andrew Johnson, spent four years working empathically alongside the miners of Taff Merthyr Colliery, South Wales, until its closure in 1993. Politically turbulent times that were to reshape the life of a generation of people.