Dystopia

Image 1.
Collins traveled hundreds of miles of motorway in search of access roads to photograph the required views for the creation of this image. All the shots that make up this one image have been taken from bridges that span the motorway taking weeks to capture. The end product is Collins own rather dark view of the future, The resulting image envisages the disapearence of countryside in Southern England if road building and widening schemes continue at the present rate. Created at a time of depression for Collins she shows fear and concern about the rush to cover our beautiful land in tarmac.

Image 2 .
Many of Lynne Collins images refer to the environmental responses of the planet to human greed, manipulation, destructive multinational companies and the more destructive use of technology.
The shot consists of two images one taken from the top of St Pauls Cathedral. The other, from the top of the seven sisters cliffs on the Sussex Coast, where her partner swam in a winter sea for her art. This image was then superimposed and worked into the Thames view which overlooks the Millennium Bridge and Tate Modern.
As the ice caps melt due to climate change, this is the kind of view we might expect to see in London if governments of the world don't unite and act now.
This is Collins own view of a possible view of London and as with so many of her images she is creating a narrative and sending out a message.