The second part of the two-part spiral-bound publication Peripheral and Interstitial Landscapes features pictures made along a disused railway line in Yeadon, West Yorkshire. Approached in a similar vein to part one (The Ginnel), the focus here is on gates as portals or points of transition between private and public, as well as the tension between residential development, the area's industrial heritage, and the managed natural environment of the Engine Fields nature reserve.
While the work as a whole was originally envisioned as a documentary study, a lack of authorial discipline led to a more contingent, less rigorous approach that occasionally flirted with the indulgences of the pictorialist tradition. The deliberately formal, perhaps even overwrought title, together with the waterfall-style index, was intended to underscore the tension between conceptual intent and photographic instinct.
A copy of the book was acquired by Leeds Arts University and is held in the library's Special Collection.