Guy Batey | A Fragile Hold

A Fragile Hold

These photographs explore human absence, and the different ways in which an absence can make itself felt. It is the exploration of a paradox: there are no people in any of these photographs, and yet in all of them a sense of human presence can be felt.

I look for urban spaces and objects that are often mundane – an ordinary street, corner or abandoned object – but which are lifted out of the everyday by a particular kind of resonance, an immanence, a sense of something still living and breathing.