This ongoing project explores manhole and sewer covers photographed since 2005 during my travels worldwide.
Positioned at the surface yet leading underground, these forms act as quiet connectors within the built environment.

As with my other work, I am drawn to surfaces shaped by time—worn metal, eroded patterns, incidental marks, and signs of repeated use. These functional objects carry the imprint of their surroundings, reflecting local histories, climate, movement, and human presence.

Influenced by abandoned and derelict spaces, underground environments, vacant industrial sites, old walls, and graffiti, this series continues my investigation into overlooked materials and cast-off surfaces. What might initially appear insignificant reveals itself as a record of place and passage.

Through photography, these covers become studies of texture, abstraction, trace and history. They offer evidence of a previous moment—quiet markers within the urban landscape—extending my ongoing interest in the marks & debris left behind across both urban and rural environments.

Spaces Below