English Landscapes

“There is an old English saying that goes ‘Safe as houses.’” Reilly says, “The group of photographs I call ‘English Landscapes’ evokes a similar sense of nostalgia alongside a curious search for safety. The series as a whole could perhaps be described as a self-portrait. But while the photographs depict sites in my native England, they are places that I had never before visited. The subjects of these images–rooms, houses, dust bins, and football pitches–touched my sense of humor and topophilia. The nostalgia these scenes generate is a purely emotional connection.”