Open Source #22: Bags For Life – Luke Saxon
1 May - 31 May 2022
Working with motifs that characterise Northen England, Luke makes quiet images about the everyday. Often taken in and around small towns, his photographs have a rhythm rooted in classic British street photography but with an almost pastoral pace; finding a calm rectangle in an urbanised space and finding character in those who pass through it.
For Open Source #22, we’re sharing his series Bags For Life, a collection of images that highlights the global issue of plastic waste on a very local level. Made with his signature portrait-like style, the waste products found floating along Luke’s local canal in Rochdale are rendered thoughtful and precise, as if finely folded art pieces. Taking several hundred years to break down, the bags are small but enduring reminders of our personal and domestic impact on the environment.
Working with motifs that characterise Northen England, Luke makes quiet images about the everyday. Often taken in and around small towns, his photographs have a rhythm rooted in classic British street photography but with an almost pastoral pace; finding a calm rectangle in an urbanised space and finding character in those who pass through it.
For Open Source #22, we’re sharing his series Bags For Life, a collection of images that highlights the global issue of plastic waste on a very local level. Made with his signature portrait-like style, the waste products found floating along Luke’s local canal in Rochdale are rendered thoughtful and precise, as if finely folded art pieces. Taking several hundred years to break down, the bags are small but enduring reminders of our personal and domestic impact on the environment.