Pictures taken in Orford Ness, Suffolk, UK. You can read more about these here. I submitted them to a Lensculture Emerging Talent Awards 2017, but none of them got selected. I got a nice feedback though, from one of the reviewers:
Hi Omar, thanks for submitting this series on Orford Ness.
I would just initially mention your artist statement for this. As the focus is on Orford Ness itself, I would only include the information on what it is and why you were interested in it rather than the information on how you found out about it and the area around it. It will keep it more punchy and direct.
In regards to the images, there is a consistency of colour palette and on the whole, the images are visually coherent. The greys of the concrete work well with the greens and the shingle and you highlight the details that give the place the weird feeling that you mention. Images 3,4,5,8 and 9 are the most successful image sin my opinion. Visually they cohere as mentioned but these images all clearly include elements of the military past and show how this has been left to nature to reclaim it. The balance between past and present is on show and this works well. The tunnel in image 3 serves as a tool to lead our eye through the frame but the handling of the exposure and composition is also spot on. The light on the walls is well observed. Images 4 and 5 have so much textural quality in the surfaces and the images almost feel abstract in colour and surface. Again your compositions are structured and controlled.
The light house appears several times and this is so difference tin tone, both visually, and as an object that it changes the mood of the images. It is so recognisable as a British seaside sight, on postcards etc, that it takes your mind in a different direction when you see it and distracts from the rest of the scene. The images become more nostalgic and pretty than the images where you concentrate on the brutal designs of the military architecture. I enjoy the colour and visual information in image 9 and I do thin that you would have benefitted from including more imagery where you get closer to the signs or surfaces to break up the wider shots. I know you have included that in image 6 but again, I find I am distracted by the lighthouse.
Look at the colour work of Donovan Wylie and Simon Norfolk who have worked on projects that investigate military and former military sites.
There are lots of places like this around the UK and it could become an interesting series if you were to try and build a larger body of work around these places.