exploring.place - Ted Leeming - photographer

Ted Leeming - Exploring Place — ‘Western Harbour Waterfront’ - new housing development in Leith, Edinburgh

Ted Leeming - If You Go Down to the Woods Today... — ‘After Arwen’ - the 2021 storm felled 16 million trees in a single night

Ted Leeming - Rhine — ‘Big Fucking Hole’ - at 10km long and 8km wide, Hambrach is Europe’s biggest opencast coal mine

Carrara Marble Quarries by Ted Leeming — ‘Carrara’ - over 650 mines have quarried marble at Carrara since Roman times

Ted Leeming - Treasured Places — ‘The Quarry’ - everything comes from somewhere

DJI_0568 — 'The Landfill' - everything ends up somewhere

Ted Leeming - — “I bought a new one in a sale. Just one makes no difference does it?” - fridge/freezer recycling centre in central Scotland

Ted Leeming - Treasured Places — ‘The Sheepfold’ - generational land use change in southern Scotland

Faroes_010517_0003 — 'A Storm Is Coming' - of our own making

AltaVia2018_1552ENERGISE — 'The Magnificent Beech' - this tree was split apart in the third 100 year storm to hit the region in 5 years

BuilleCervinia_0282 — 'Don't Worry I'll Be Gone Soon' - the speed of retreat of glaciers globally is higher than previously calculated

NotInMyBackYard_1 — 'Not In My Back Yard' - the conundrums that face decision making

Ted Leeming - — ‘Carsfad’ - built amidst local opposition in the 1930’s under the new National Grid Act, one of 6 dams that from the Galloway hydro scheme

Ted Leeming - Treasured Places — ‘The Answer My Friend...?'’ - pre-assembly and logistics hub for the ‘Neart na Gaoithe’ offshore wind farm at Port of Dundee

Ted Leeming - Treasured Places — ‘It’s Quiet Today” - traffic on the M8 motorway in Glasgow

Ted Leeming - Danube_DSC3638 — ‘From The Friendship Bridge’ - emphasising the sheer presence of the Danube in her lower reaches. And yet still fragile to human interactions

Ted-Leeming_Nothing-Comes-for-Free_Monsanto Wins — ‘Monsanto Wins’ - unimproved grasslands are first treated with glyphosate to kill native species, then reseeded with vigorous, non-native grasses to maximise production

_DSC2029 — ‘The Pollenmakers’ - with improvements in agricultural practice the UK lost 97% of it’s species (both animal and plant life) rich hay meadows in 50 years

My Church — 'The Times They Are a Changing' - change in western society has accelerated massively since the 1950's

Ireland_0133 (1) — 'untitled' - Gallway cottage. What story do you imagine when you look at this image??

Assynt252ab — 'Suilven' - what a wonderful world

‘I knew when I looked for a long time that I had hardly begun to see’
Nan Shepherd

Place is not just where we live, it is something we shape, moment by moment, decision by decision. When we change our relationship with place, new possibilities emerge.
Through a series of varied creative projects, thinking and ideas, exploring.place invites individual engagement with, and challenge of, ‘our place in time’, encouraging conversation, new thinking, and the co-creation of solutions towards a thriving, equitable future.