Brutal beauty in England's greenest county
By Richard Adams
4 Mar 2008
Surrey, UK, is the most wooded county in England; more trees per square foot than anywhere else. Then you arrive at a suburban railway station. This suburban railway station is cold, exposed and brutalist in nature. It has a motorway (freeway) above it and to one side of it. Standing on the platform you are surrounded on 3 sides by concrete. It is windy and cold...so why do I find it's stark brutalism beautiful? Why did I need to photograph it while commuting? I think it's because it is a profound statement of the impact that man has on the landscape. In the way that nature reclaims deserted landscapes so man claims the landscape.
Celebrate the beauty of the geometry and textures and forms.
