ELY Cambridgeshire: Flat Earth 2007 by Roger Coleman

A retrospective of our 7th Empty Space Project, Flat Earth 2007, by renowned photographer Roger Coleman, is currently on show in the upper gallery until 17th May, 2008.

This thought-provoking photographic series about the profound impact of urban modernization on rural environments consists of 28 images taken around Ely, Cambridgeshire, is an ongoing attempt to document the landscape as an evolving interaction between modern farming, wind and weather, and the land itself.

The year 2007 saw the global urban poplation overtake the rural population and complete the step from hunter-gatherer to urban consumer. The demands we place on the landscape as a source of food, energy and raw materials shape it in unexpected ways, miles away from the romantic ideals framed in the early 19th century. The result is a radically transformed landscape, which is the focus of Flat Earth 2007.

All the images are for sale in a limited edition of 10 signed and numbered at a price of £300 each. They are printed on high gamut, acid-free paper using the latest eight-colour print technology, and mounted on 2.5mm aluminium. All prints are sealed with a UV-resistant matte film and supplied ready for unframed display. In addition a beautiful book in limited edition called FLAT EARTH 2007: Photographs of the Cambridgeshire Fens by Roger Coleman can be purchased online at EXHIBIT for £10 + postage.

For sale enquiry, please contact sale@exhibit-goldenlane.com.

Roger Coleman trained as a fine artist at Edinburgh College of Art in the 1960’s before moving into community and performance arts and becoming a founding member of the Welfare State Theatre Group. From here he moved into teaching at Leeds and Central Saint Martin’s College of Art. He was founder of the Helen Hamlyn Research Center at the Royal College of Art as well as producing his own work.