Mole Man (2008)

6 c-prints mounted on aluminium accompanied by wall text, 78 x 60 cm framed, text: 28.5 x 37.5 cm

"The Mole Man" is a project comprised of a series of photographs and a wall text and is a response to my investigation into the compulsion of 77 year-old William Lyttle, a London resident fined £100,000 for digging tunnels under his house for over 40 years and who, until his death, defended his right to dig. Dubbed the ‘Mole Man’ by local newspapers, Lyttle’s network of tunnels have endangered the foundations of neighboring structures and he was evicted from his home in order to enable engineers fill the holes with cement.