Black Sights documents how the Forth Valley has been both made and unmade by our historic dependence on coal. I visualise the discomfiting traces of the carbon economy in the vanishing power plants that once turned Carboniferous remains into electric light. Photographs of Cockenzie Power Station, and its attendant sites of coal excavation and ash deposition, present landscapes in transition. These are images of a society caught between the exhausted confidence of heavy industry and our present anxieties about climate change. I want to show ruins without charisma, to evoke our ambivalence about having become modern. This selection comes from a wider portfolio of work documenting three sites shaped by the coal mining industry: the capped shafts of Monktonhall superpit; Cockenzie Power Station, famed as Britain’s least efficient coal plant, closed in March 2013 and demolished in September 2015 and Longannet power station closed in March 2016. This selection of work is a continuation of an ongoing project which started in November 2014 and will continue until the histories of three sites come to an end.