Consumed — That Which Takes Us gathers seven photographs taken across Japan, the UK, and the Middle East. The images are not linked by place but by a shared emotional gravity the moments where life overtakes us, quietly and completely.
A woman illuminated by a vending machine at night;
a man crossing Shibuya in the rain;
a woman bracing against the rain outside Marks & Spencer;
a figure seen through the distortion of a bar-window;
a grandmother lying in the last light of her life with a child beside her;
a girl eating and smoking while two boys fold into each other beside her a brief flare of youthful chaos;
and elderly man sitting in the weight of his years.
Each person is absorbed in their own story pulled by circumstance, time, routine, weather, memory, hunger, or inevitability. Though their worlds differ, the feeling echoes:
We are all held, carried, or overtaken by something. This series is about that pull the things that take us.
By Tim Houghton
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