��because as soon as everyone else finds out how beautiful it is, it will be too late.� The Sunday Times (on Cyprus) 2 May, 2004
These photographs were taken a few weeks after it became, for the first time in recent years, possible to cross the �green line� and gain access to both the north and the south of Cyprus. Since 1963 there has been sporadic inter-communal violence on the island until in 1974 Cyprus was declared to be divided between the south Greek Cypriot community and the northern Turkish Cypriot community. The entire island entered the European Union on 1 May 2004. However, EU laws do not apply to north Cyprus. As I understood it with the EU membership came reforms in the building regulations. These photographs were taken in August 2004, three month after entering the EU.
It is a common belief that as the landscape is drawn, painted and photographed it is better understood. Formalism in contemporary landscape photography can seem so disinterested.
