Waiting Under Southern SkiesIn Waiting Under Southern Skies, Colin Abbott shares images made over a lifetime of photographic observation. Many of the photographs included are drawn from his personal archive and are published or exhibited here for the first time. These images are not simply historical recordsthey are fragments of lived experience, distilled through Abbotts particular way of seeing. Together, they form a visual storyboard of Abbotts lifewhere the actors, scenes,

the waving of the reeds and the branches of the overhanging tree

At a time when house prices had fallen sharply across the country and young people were struggling to afford to stay in the village

“Tony Ray -Jones was one of my initial inspirations as a photographer

generic and not site specific

northern & western France

This publication imagines a day in the life that we find lying dormant in Myers archive

But myth (and conspiracy theories) have it that an alien survey was commissioned of planet Earth

We are so habituated to their presence that

as well as the following silver-gelatin prints

It was a relationship that was integral to the landscape and spoke to a past that

marked by the coming of fake news

But what it stood for might have been worth keeping" – Peter Mitchell