Source: Graduate Photography Online - 2014 - University of Huddersfield

Acceptable Alterations

Acceptable Alterations to the Landscape (AAL) is a photographic survey which pre-empts significant change within the captured areas. Through the use of governmental produced literature reporting on the environmental implications of Hydraulic Fracturing in the UK, AAL's images are sited within designated Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty and National Parkland where licensing rights for the exploration of unconventional oil or gas have been granted. 'Acceptable Alterations' specifically focused on the Department of Energy and Climate Change's 'Strategic Environmental Assessment', December 2013, and it's predecessor (2005). The document is designed as a guide to issues arising from a 14th round of onshore licensing to take place in the near future, it's often vague, uncertain and unsettling language provides a contextual rhetoric within which to consider the images. For more information visit www.acceptablealterations.co.uk

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