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Project Statement

Teesside, located in the North East of England is like a museum showcasing the rise and fall of the industrial revolution.

Already brutally sculpted over millennia by the relentless assault of the North Sea and mother nature, the landscape came under attack again during the 18th century, this time at the hand of man following the discovery of ironstone, the raw material needed to feed the fiery furnace of a revolution in full swing. An arterial network of railroads brought in workers from all parts of the country, and as soon as they arrived they began to chip away at the edges of a once rural society.

Although the furnace fires are now being extinguished and mother nature has commenced the process of reclaiming what she had only loaned, there are wounds to both landscape and society that may be too deep to fully heal.

Arthur Ransome Photography

Project Statement