ENTRY DESCRIPTION
My intention is to show in one image the divergence of reality from words. We associate barbed wire with conflict, with war and might, therefore, readily associate this image with the politicised phrase, 'the war on plastics'. In reality the image shows yet another piece of plastic that was carelessly discarded and subsequently caught on a fence, there to be shredded by the buffeting winds. This is an all too common sight in our landscape.

AUTHOR
Until retirement in September 2007 I spent my professional life as a physiologist. The University of Toronto, Canada and the University of Oxford were academic homes for my research and teaching. In the early 1980's, during a visit to New Orleans, the varied and inventive use of iron in that city lured me towards photography. From that time onwards I have used the camera as a filter for the visual world and a tool for focusing on what is there for all to see.

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