Research- Ali Richards

I'm still interested in pressing on with the idea of ruined and abandoned cars. While researching for another module, I came across these images by Ali Richards, a British photographer. They are from her series 'Playgrounds', the purpose being to explore the way teenagers interact with their environment. Largely, how they steal and burn out cars.

Something I like is the fact that often the cars look very out of place with the natural, preserved landscape around them. It reminded me of the car that I chanced across in the Holiday Inn carpark. The fact that it didn't look it belonged there.

I found that looking at these images inspired me to look for more burnt out and abandoned cars, particularly in places where on one hand you do expect to find them (because teenagers/car thieves are fairly obvious in their dumping grounds) but on the other hand it's where you know you shouldn't see cars.

From having a conversation with Jan before he directed me to Watermead park as this seems to be a favourite place to dump cars in Leicester and I also know of several places back home in Grimsby. And with the return of my car at some point over the next week, I should be able to get this project thoroughly back on the ground!