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Plaques, Historical Markers, Notices - signs of evidence of note and significance. As is often the case, sometimes there is nothing actually to see - the sign itself becomes the reason to stop, look, take a picture and move on. From battles, births, deaths and inconsequential happenings inbetween, the visitor is asked to mentally reconstruct the events that happened at these locations.

Part of an ongoing project investigating the making of the feature film 'The Lost', the ‘Lost Sites’ series uses images of such signs, seen through the lens of a documentarian.

The sub-titled 'voiceover' on each image gives the viewer a context in which to view each site. But where is the truth presented in this 'documentary' being derived from? These locations' cultural significance? Or the framework in which they are presented? As the relationship between the textual informing the pictorial begins to blur, so our own understanding of what is real and what is constructed is called into question.