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Industrial Photography of the K75 — Fourteen Frames from the Derwent Valley
Fourteen frames, one bike, one working valley. The K75 was shot around the cotton-mill brick, millstone-grit walls, back lanes and wooded edges of the Derwent Valley — UNESCO heritage, but also still a place where things are made. These pictures are about the conversation between the machine and the place.
Front on view of the K75, ready to go.
Rear view of the K75 in its own world against a graffiti wall.
Full side-on view of the K75 under a metal gantry.
Up the hill on the approach, ready for the woods.
Tilted on the side stand against a roller door with blown-out windows behind.
Side on against a graffiti wall.
Rear three-quarter view, graffiti blend.
K75 against a stone wall with roller shutter and undercroft.
Rear three-quarter view on a pale road between heavy summer trees.
Full side profile in a woodland opening.
K75 against a long mill wall with broken windows.
K75 beneath warning signs and a White Peak Distillery direction sign.
Side profile against a graffiti-covered wall in muted monochrome.
K75 below a tall mill wall with broken glazing and a dark undercroft opening.
Industrial photography of a motorbike is a small genre — somewhere between portraiture, product, and landscape. The Derwent Valley is generous to it: the surfaces are pre-aged, the light is honest, and nothing in the frame is trying too hard. The K75 just sits there and gets on with it, exactly as it has for forty years.