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“His images draw upon a series of thematic layers. Firstly, the rural area itself: Bland was careful to select areas that are in a stage of pre-development. Secondly he has placed emissaries of Western culture into the frame: the takeaway restaurants and convenience store.By compiling these two totems together Bland heightens our sense of the uncanny. Composing with long exposures, Bland has replicated dusk and its corresponding lighting, crafting a time when nature is at its most unrealistic.There is a sense of darkness crowding in, surrounding these small outposts of culture, glowing fireflies of refuge situated in a night that has become a thing to be survived.” – Andrea Allen – Entitle Magazine