The Autophagy of Us is a body of work that examines the entanglement between human systems and the natural world, where cycles of consumption, decay, and renewal overlap. Rather than positioning humanity outside nature, the work considers how we are written into the same processes we attempt to control.

The photographs bring together British wildlife and landscapes shaped by industry, infrastructure, belief, and commerce — sites built for use and efficiency, now weathering, fragmenting, or repurposed by natural systems. Factories slip into scrubland, distribution centres become habitats, and technology begins to mimic organic form, blurring distinctions between what is living and what is made. Across the work, collapse and adaptation unfold side by side.

Running through the series is the idea of autophagy — a process in which a body breaks down its own material in order to survive. This becomes a lens through which wider cultural and ecological strain can be read: systems correcting themselves, sometimes violently, in response to imbalance. Animals appear as witnesses within these altered environments, standing in for resilience, consequence, and transformation, and carrying echoes of older myths in which human and non-human worlds were never fully separate.

The Autophagy of Us reflects on a moment in which environmental breakdown, technological acceleration, and biological vulnerability converge. The work does not offer resolution, but observes what emerges when familiar structures begin to give way — and what forms of life persist within that uncertainty.