Project Two
Silos in Flat Light
Photographs of grain silos and storage towers on working farmland
Silos give the midlands farmland a hard vertical note. In this series they are treated as quiet architecture rather than equipment: the cylinder, the ladder, the seam of rivets, the rust streak running down from a bolt. The camera is set up on overcast days, when the light is even and nothing is asked to perform. What reads instead is structure, and the way a tall metal form sits against a sky that goes on for a long way.
Each plate is paired with a short note on where the structure stands and how it is used through the year, so the record stays tied to a working farm rather than to a scenic idea of the countryside. The series is hung at full plate size, which lets the eye move up the tower and catch the small shifts in paint, weather and repair.
Light as a working condition
Overcast days flatten the metal and hold the detail still. Rivets, ladders and rust streaks read without drama, which is the point of the series rather than a limitation of it.
Notes on place and use
Every plate carries a short note on where the structure stands and how it is worked through the year. The record follows the farm, not a postcard version of it.
Following one thread
The same towers return across the season in different weather. Read together, the plates build a body of work rather than a set of separate pictures.