Castlepoint

I've had a long/short affair with the Castlepoint Shopping Park, since living so near it. I'd heard about its car park collapse before really caring where it was, when back in Surrey.

I have been going there pretty much since I moved to Dorset. I've photographed it numerous times over the past few years with varying agenda.

The more I've grown to like it, the more I have tried to convince friends of its charm; some of whom have nearly reached a point not too far from my own.

One of those friends has also (I think, I hope) begun to rely slightly on its existence; a friend who I have shared so much time there with, good times and bad, both happy and sad. This friend is my exact ethnicity twin; our ethnic pie charts are identical.

She's living in Italy (our one-quarter home-country) for the time being, oiling the cogs with blood-thick espresso.

These pics (and a few more besides) are for her. They are a short series of camera phone images I took on a trip to Castlepoint