After fifteen years of making work rooted in Stockport (2010–2025), this archive brings together a sustained photographic engagement with a place in flux. Across multiple bodies of work, the town emerges as both subject and collaborator. Its shifting landscapes traced through themes of regeneration, contested space, industrial legacy and migration. What appears at first as a local study gradually unfolds into something more layered: an extended meditation on how place is shaped, remembered and reimagined.

What began as a way of photographing an immediate environment soon expanded into a long-term process of research, documentation and spatial inquiry. Time became a key material. With each return, new details surfaced, fragments of the past embedded in architecture, gestures toward possible futures taking form in redevelopment and erasure. The work grew in parallel with this accumulation, responding to the town’s evolving identity while also questioning its narratives.

Over this period, a complex relationship with Stockport developed. At once intimate and critical, rooted in familiarity yet attentive to tension and change. In 2025, this relationship coalesced into The Stockport Archives: a comprehensive body of work spanning analogue processes, digital image-making and print-based outcomes. The archive acts not only as a record, but as a framework; an attempt to hold together disparate temporalities, perspectives and modes of seeing.

The conclusion of Stockport as a central focus was marked by the exhibition Farewell For Now, in which over one hundred prints were installed in situ, returning the work to the environment from which it emerged. This gesture of re-placement underscored the cyclical nature of the project: images made from the town, reabsorbed back into it.

As a whole, The Stockport Archives charts both the transformation of a place and the evolution of a practice. It reveals a gradual sharpening of intent and sensitivity; an artist learning how to look and how to remain attentive, over time.