Mary McIntyre holds that many people might consider the act of taking a photograph as something quick, immediate etc. or even easy, momentary etc. which is suggested even by the use of the word, ‘taking’, as in something that already exists and is merely taken.

However, to her the act of taking a photograph constitutes a different approach: it is not taking, but ‘making’ something. It is the construction of an image.

This series appears to explore the neglected and dejected terrains, seeking out moments of odd grace and glanced beauty in settings that might customarily be considered ugly, uninspiring or of little value.

These are indeterminate territories where rural and urban converge in peculiar and sometimes fraught forms. Spaces such as hose at the barely visible borders of towns or cities, where fraying suburb begins to become entangled with the complicated patterning of the contemporary countryside.