Frequencies
2025
Status: Ongoing
Edit: Kodak Ektar 100
Date: 2025 (Ongoing)
Area: Hampshire, United Kingdom
VS (Versus) is an ongoing photographic survey of English landscapes where human infrastructure is being challenged or reclaimed by natural forces. Focusing on sites where the built environment meets erosion, overgrowth, weathering or collapse, the project documents visible moments of conflict between engineered structures and organic processes. Each photograph centres on tension rather than harmony, revealing fractured concrete, buckling barriers and pathways dissolving into vegetation. The work reflects on control, impermanence and the quiet persistence of nature, where human intention is gradually undone within the landscape.
VS forms part of the wider photographic project Frequencies, which explores different perceptual and emotional conditions within the landscape. While VS examines the physical tension between human infrastructure and natural forces, other strands explore quieter psychological registers of presence and atmosphere. All strands are photographed using the same camera, allowing different visual and emotional registers to emerge from a shared instrument.
Frequencies
2025
Status: Ongoing
Edit: Kodak Tri-X 400
Area: Hampshire, United Kingdom
Sleep, the Cousin of Death is a nocturnal photographic study of absence and presence, tracing human emotion through liminal spaces, blurred figures and half-lit environments where memory, anxiety and solitude quietly linger. Begun in the winter, the project explores the fragile boundary between visibility and obscurity, capturing moments suspended between clarity and disappearance. Through shadow, softness and restrained light, the images evoke a psychological landscape shaped by introspection and uncertainty, where what is unseen carries as much weight as what is revealed.
Sleep, the Cousin of Death forms part of the wider photographic project Frequencies, which explores different perceptual and emotional conditions within the landscape. Where Sleep, the Cousin of Death explores the psychological atmosphere of night and the subtle presence of human emotion, other strands observe the physical tension between infrastructure and nature. All strands are photographed using the same camera, allowing these contrasting conditions to emerge from a shared instrument.
2026
Status: Ongoing
Edit: Kodak Gold 200
Area: Hampshire, United Kingdom
In the Company of Gulls is a photographic walk around Langstone Harbour on the south coast of England. Made using one of the artist’s grandfather’s cameras and the same film that documented much of the artist’s childhood, the work follows a sixteen-mile route through familiar coastal landscapes. Moving slowly along the shoreline, the photographs focus on small observations shaped by shifting light, weather, and the presence of gulls overhead. Rather than pursuing a fixed subject, the images emerge through the act of walking itself. The work reflects on memory, inheritance and the restorative act of stepping outside, using photography as a way to momentarily step away from the pressures of everyday life while reconnecting with the surrounding landscape.
2021 - 2022
Status: Completed
Film: Kodak Colorplus 200
Area: Portsmouth, United Kingdom
Welcome to Croxton Town is a photographic exploration of Southsea, Portsmouth, an area once known as Croxton Town. Combining archival research with analogue photography, the project uncovers the forgotten history of the town’s founder while documenting the present-day landscape. The work reflects on memory, nostalgia, and the emotional pull of place, where history quietly persists in everyday surroundings.
Contact Antony
antony@antonyrturner.com
Born in 1985 in Portsmouth, UK, Antony’s relationship with photography began in childhood through time spent exploring his grandfather’s photography books and negatives. These early encounters shaped an understanding of photography as a way to preserve memory and experience, long before it became a formal practice. He began photographing seriously in his late teens and, after photographing a relative’s wedding in 2008, committed to photography professionally. From 2009 to 2021, Antony worked internationally as a wedding photographer, travelling widely and documenting moments of connection, ritual, and emotion. The disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic marked the end of this chapter and a natural shift in direction. He now focuses on exhibitions, galleries, and personal projects, moving away from commissioned work to explore photography in a more reflective and personal context.
Availble for general inquiries and private commissions (i.e. portraits & special projects).
Publications
Welcome to Croxton Town
Paperback
132 pages
19 x 23.5 cm
ISBN: 978-1-80068-756-1
June 1, 2022
£24.99
0/350 - Sold Out
Solo Shows
Croxtons at Croxtons
June 16, 2022
Croxton's Kitchen and Tap House
Palmerston Rd, Southsea
June 16, 2022
Press
August 12, 2021
Live Interview
BBC Radio Solent
July 10, 2021
Newspaper Article
Portsmouth News