Under-Hil: Documentary Photography

On an island where the traditional industries were quarrying, masonry, and fishing, Portland has seen its local industry slip away into history and almost disappear. Considered one of the four main priority areas in the Weymouth and Portland Council, the people of Portlands Underhill have seen drastic changes over the last fifty years that have left local shops to close and house prices to rise. With the slow destruction of Portland's unique character, excavating its wild beauty, cut and re-cutting flower border verges, building new unfamiliar estates foreign from Portlands nature, achieving a suburban sameness. This is a series with no hidden agendas, no exploitation, just a shortcut to knowing what it is like to be there.