Chapter I documents the largest working salt mine in the UK, situated in my home town Winsford. Taking on a documentary-style approach I photographed the subject with raw simplicity, showing the harshness and beauty of the industrial landscape. Using forced perspective, I aimed to transform the salt piles into vast monumental cliffs to appear as part of the natural landscape, emphasising how Cheshire’s landscape was shaped by the exploitation of salt mining. In turn, my images suggest that the salt has now created it’s own landscape, symbolising the power shift, with subsidence and flooding serving as reminders of how the land has been irrevocably altered by the very resource it once relied upon.