Fallen

A series of landscape tableaus depicting aircraft wreckage on moors of the Dark Peak, UK. Over one hundred aircraft have succumbed to this cloud-concealed terrain, many during the World War Two era.

In making this work, Nicholas Holt was inspired by the Brueghel painting ‘Landscape with The Fall of Icarus’ (c. 1555). These sites represent an intersection of history and tragedy with the geography of the Dark Peak. They also touch on the complexity of human intertwinement with nature–showing the wreckage as both an imposter and as part of the landscape.

2020
Published in Geographical Magazine