📍 CoffeeWrite, Marygate, Wakefield, WF1 1NX
⏲ 8am - 5pm Tuesday to Saturday, from 14th March 2026
🗣 Wakefield ArtWalk 5pm to 8pm, Wednesday 25th March 2026
Ten years into a career on the railway, I began to notice how much of my time had been spent watching the world pass by at speed; watching landscapes unfold and disappear within seconds. Throughout 2025 I photographed these scenes during the routine journeys that have filled my working life.
The world becomes a sequence of brief encounters. Industrial estates give way to open fields; terraces dissolve into woodland; a distant hill, a signal box, a row of houses, a church spire. Each appearing only long enough to be recognised before slipping from view. These moments are fleeting, yet familiar.
Many of the places captured in these images are locations I know well from years of travelling the rail network. Others have already faded from memory. For that reason, none of the photographs carry place names or locations. At speed, distance creates anonymity. What remains is simply the act of looking: a landscape glimpsed between stations, somewhere between departure and arrival.
Working with a smart phone rather than a traditional camera was intentional. It allowed the images to remain spontaneous and immediate. Photographs made in the same way the scenes themselves appear: quickly, quietly, and often only once.
