Image size: 11.4 x 21 cms
Paper size: 20.4 x 25.1 cms

Inscribed on the reverse: (lower) 04-0004-06

John Blakemore writes that “Fulbeck, the flat, windswept, intensively farmed landscape of Lincolnshire. And, unexpected, protest at the ominous, resented presence of Nyrex. A disused airfield, one of a number of areas under investigation as possible sites for the dumping of nuclear waste.

A commission from the CPRE, to photograph an area of outstanding natural beauty. I negotiated permission to include signs of protest in my piece and began to photograph. The wind, multiple exposure, the added connotations of nuclear waste, the wind as carrier of contamination. I decided that all my photographs would be of the wide landscape, an agricultural landscape devoid of people, their presence implied only by the signs of protest.

I thought that perhaps this could be a way back to working in the landscape, to include the overtly political but the urge died with the completion of the commission and the return to the studio.” (John Blakemore, Photographs 1955-2010, Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2011 (p126))