Roger describes how he came to these pictures:
When I was a child, I went out into the garden one night in search of something I'd lost that day. I took a torch with me and, although I never actually found what I had lost, I found so much more instead. Beneath the plants and trees in the torchlight I discovered things I had not noticed in the daylight; lost toys, shards of coloured glass and fragments of willow patterned pottery all revealed themselves in this illumination at night
I was so intrigued by what I saw, that I forgot where I was and my initial feeling of excitement was replaced by fear... it was a fear of the very place in which I felt most comfortable during the day.
Often things experienced in the formative years stay with you, influencing and triggering emotions like fear and excitement right the way through your life.
With these pictures I am now revisiting those emotions, exploring the differences between beauty and unease, excitement and fear and how our responses change to the familiar when experienced out of kilter.
The 'small world' of our childhood may have grown, but do we ever lose our feelings and responses to events in our earlier life?
These images are created by visiting a location in complete darkness and illuminating the area using a single, but movable light source. I have developed a technique that allows me to capture texture and mood that gives the images individuality. These pictures were generally captured 'live' and involve very little post capture editing.