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Sunshine & Rainbows #1 - #5
(2021)
Pigment print on Tirage Baryté, 120cm x 90cm

 

This series brings together desert landscapes and rainbows. Roads cut through the terrain, leading the eye forward — toward something not yet visible. The rainbow suggests promise: the idea that there is a pot of gold at the end.

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The rainbows in these images are clearly artificial. They do not emerge from the weather but from intervention. They are constructed, almost too perfect. Their presence points to illusion as much as hope.

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Migration often begins with belief. To leave everything behind and undertake a dangerous journey requires an extraordinary conviction that life elsewhere will be better. I have spoken with many migrants who hold a firm faith in Europe — that even the unknown must be an improvement. In my film Promised Land, a group of young Afghans in Calais say: “England is too good for people.”

 

The road continues while the promise remains suspended in the distance.

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