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Dounreay: The Marine Exclusion Zone : The photographs in this series constitute the end product of several walks along the shore on either side of the (UKAEA) Dounreay nuclear facility. All the images in the series were shot inside the Scottish Environmental Protections Agency's (SEPA), Marine Exclusion Zone. This area has a radius of 2km from a central point and stretches both east and west of the nuclear site. In this zone it is forbidden to fish and all walkers are warned that radio-active particles are present on the foreshore. In the 1960's an estimated 10,000 particles of radio-active material were flushed out into the sea-bed via an effluent waste pipe. The particles lay undetected in the sea-bed until 1997 when they were first discovered by a survey team. Sine this time, work has begun to clean-up the surrounding area. The nearby beach, Sandside Bay, and other surrounding beaches are now surveyed every month and each time a few particles are found. The problem is that the sea is continually washing up new particles onto the sands. To date 927 particles have been found, both at sea and on land.

Dounreay: The Marine Exclusion Zone

Cape Wrath: Bombardment Zone & surrounding areas : Cape Wrath: Bombardment Zone & surrounding areas, was a project shot alongside Dounreay: The Marine Exclusion Zone, in the summer of 2006. The remotest place in the UK, Cape Wrath is home to a NATO land/sea firing range. It is also a fragile eco-system. The project remains largely unfinished -it was canned when I met Simon Norfolk photographing in the same region for his Hebrides project.

Cape Wrath: Bombardment Zone & surrounding areas

Ephemera etc. : Assorted images from my archive.

The Edge of Eden : The Edge of Eden was an inter-disciplinary collaboration between Conohar's photographs and the text of Kristina Nell Weaver, published by Cambridge Scholars Press in 2007, in a collection entitled, "Material Worlds". The creative writing responds to Scott’s images within a framework borrowed from American anthropologist Mary Douglas’s work on liminality and the boundaries between cultural realms of order and disorder, health and decay, or cleanliness and pollution. Edge of Eden draws upon Douglas's theories to trace material objects and experiences (i.e.- asbestos, American flags, illness) through a fragmented historical and cultural geography. Elements of Eden’s materiality assume symbolic and metaphoric power even as they remain grounded in the physical, embodied world.

The Edge of Eden

About Me : I am a freelance photographer based in Manchester, UK. I undertake commercial work, grant funded work and I also lecture at FE and university levels. I have exhibited both domestically and internationally since I graduated from Edinburgh College of Art with an M.Des in photography (2003). I can be contacted by emailing: info@conohar.com

Contact: info@conohar.com

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