This image of delicate flowers pressed against greenhouse glass in dappled sunlight evokes both beauty and quiet urgency. The greenhouse, historically a space of nourishment and growth and a place of careful cultivation and sustenance in this image also evokes the greenhouse effect—a driver of climate change. The pressing of the delicate flowers against the glass represents how ecosystems are being crushed or constrained by habitat loss and rising temperatures. The fragile beauty of nature figuratively pressed against a man-made boundary carries ominous connotations of global warming.
Based in South West London Sue is a self taught family and portrait photographer who also creates contemporary fine art and still life images that hanker back to the days of dark and shadow using natural light to create atmosphere and depth. Her images conjure allegorical themes within our times – telling stories and feelings about today.