PEAT: Anyone that has walked on a peat moor will know of its extraordinary bouncy nature, those uncanny realms that are neither liquid nor solid. But it was the blackness of it that first drew me to it as a photographer. When wet and recently exposed, it has this this ability to draw you to it as to a void.

Peat is still farmed in the Hebrides, both commercially and privately, mainly to be used as fuel or compost. This farming sadly leads to be significant degradation, and the destruction of what is the most efficient land-based store of carbon, (much more efficient than forest). Not only is it an efficient store but current figures suggest that degradation of peatlands globally leads to an emission of carbon dioxide which is equivalent to more than 1/10 of global emissions released from burning fossil fuels.

These photographs were made both observing the peat collecting process and by dispersing coloured biodegradable pigment during high winds.