NEIL MASON
Oxford: Light & Dark

'Oxford: Light & Dark' looks past the sunlit postcard city to Oxford’s after-hours streets. Influenced by Brassaï, the series uses available lamplight and deep shadow to trace doorways, alleys and crossings that have stood for centuries.

Students, workers and visitors drift through as silhouettes, blurs or echoes of footsteps, momentary presences against stone and cobbles that hardly change. In these small encounters the work dwells on transience versus permanence – brief human lives moving through a city that seems timeless.

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