A series of photographs entitled 'Melancholia', examines the ways in which emotion is conveyed in 19th century Romantic paintings through the eyes of contemporary photography. Inspired by painters like John Martin and Caspar David Friedrich, this body of work appropriates the romanticised emotive styles of traditional paintings in a modern way. The lake district in Cumbria provided the stage for manifesting personal thoughts into photographs, just as the Romantics manifested their feelings and imaginations in painting. As the work began to take shape, I found that a sense of melancholy had unconsciouly crept into all the images. If this was truly my state of mind as a photographer,  then you are indeed looking at photographic Romanticism.