Honister is the last working slate mine in England and as such, the spoil heap is never the same shape twice. With each tiny disturbance, the dust collapses and undergoes a complete metamorphosis making each photograph impossible to replicate. This fluid nature of the spoil heap represents the ever changing landscape it sits within, both above and below the mountain.

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“Nicholas White’s eerie landscape almost looks like they are negatives at first, or even the moon. I admire his impeccable large format technique. The images have an austerity and a minimalism that makes you want to see them in real life. It reminds me of an engraving on a zinc plate, where the image is the ink of hundreds of thousands of little scratched lines. I also recall a master photographer, Harry Callahan, that I have learned so much from myself. His calligraphic black and white photos of reeds in a pond, riding that same line between natural form and abstraction.”

Todd Hido, 2020