Stephen Hughes' untitled series of digital photographs highlights two distinct faces of the contemporary East Anglian landscape, counterpointing haunting, frequently desolate rural scenes with the shiny facades of new technology companies on nearby science-parks. Highly atmospheric and beautifully composed, Hughes' images go beyond easy, obvious contrasts, and capture something of the texture of the land, one that, despite its remoteness, has actually been profoundly shaped by human intervention. Tracing echoes of patterns in the straight lines of water, in lonely telephone wires, or in the gouged-out marks left in rutted earth, Hughes' vivid and evocative photographs can be found, in two separate folios.
