PHOTOGRAPHY MONOGRAPHS | PHOTOGRAPHY SMALL PRESS | MOM

This Book/Project is a result of a physical journey Lawrence undertook back to his home and to an area he once ravaged through in his younger years. It is an attempt to demonstrate the destructive process encountered as a boy. Studying the loss of connection to an area as you grow from your past, leaving moments behind while they remain stagnate in an environment that has been laid to waste. Encountering memories and the way they reside within you. Cluttered, unorganised and messy.?

"Wreckage is in many ways my strange attempt at an autobiographical narrative. Paralleling light, violence and form in order to reconstruct the memories of my younger psyche as I once came to terms with the world that was constructed around me. Reconnecting with the environment that saw the destructive behaviour of my wayward youth which I often think was inspired by curiosity and not malice."

"Forms and silhouettes of rubble caught my attention but it wasn't until I used a flash to bring light to darkness that I discovered what I was seeing just for a split second before it was gone a moment later. The idea of a distant memory being brought into the light was present for me. A memory of once growing up in this area that is now forgotten and isolated, detached and dark. My desire to possess these memories has culminated into this physical object. A photo book.

"Fragments of the junkyard act as stimulating motion and action to the psyche of a juvenile, emulating the detachment and loneliness many encounter as they grow. Reflecting the natural impulse of watching things be destroyed. The idea of the way in which you encounter and react to the polluted world left by others before you is present while Lawrence tries to understand where things fit together by first breaking them apart.?The book includes a short anecdote by Harrison Howard, guiding the viewer along the journey.