Mark Adams’ photographic practice and research is concerned with landscape representation as a means of investigating cultural and environmental forces which impact on the environment. His film-based photographs are made during extended walks, which frequently focus on the disregarded, indeterminate and transitory spaces with a recurring focus on post-industrial legacies.

Adams’ practice evolves from an interest in photography’s empirical and suggestive qualities, the inherent tensions and contradictions between the medium as an indexical record and its allegorical potential. The use of analogue materials engages the viewer in encounters with the materiality of landscapes, architecture and the physicality of experiences. By establishing a generative ongoing dialogue between walking and making, Adams aims to develop an authentic experience of places with multi-layered histories and ecological challenges.