LANDINGS is back for 2025, and over the next few weeks we are taking over the @falmouthphotographyonline Instagram account. Landings is a collective of research clusters: Habitats, Practices of Care, Centres and Networks and Im/material; each of which is a collaboration of artists who share a cohesive methodology of visually communicating the world in which we live.
‘Habitats’ brings together observations of the physical and sociopolitical landscapes in which we live. It seeks to connect us with our surroundings, and consider the impact we have on our world, and each other within it, as co-habitees of one planet.
Today we introduce the work of artists Jill Richford, Keith Mason and Scott Murphy.
Jill Richford
Jill Richford’s visual language is melancholic and monochromatic, to reflect her own solastalgia – the psychological distress felt across an individual spectrum yet collectively experienced – which can be a deep and disturbing anxiousness about the climate crisis within this Anthropocene epoch. @drjkrd
Keith Mason
In Keith Mason’s ‘The Last Harvest’, a tenant farming family have one last harvest until they must move from the farm they have worked since 1947, now up for sale by the landowner. The project explores the family’s connection to the land and the societal changes caused by creeping urbanisation. @keithmasonphotography
Scott Murphy
Scott Murphy’s ‘This Land is (Not) Your Land’ interrogates the Canada-US border as a constructed and mediated colonial space. Using imagery sourced from Google Earth, this project presents aerial and street views that expose the artificiality of boundaries, reveal border anomalies, and reinforce a simple truth: whoever controls the map shapes the narrative.
