Extraterritorial (2023-24)

Extraterritorial is a colour and infrared photographic series shot in the US and Scotland between 2023-24, documenting the building of privately funded rocket launch facilities within the NewSpace industries. Extraterritorial considers the terrestrial sites of NewSpace, in high-end space tourist sites in New Mexico, Space X’s Star Base built on contested Carrizo/Comecrudo land in South Texas and decaying military radar bases in Shetland, alongside deeper legacies of US rocket construction and settler colonialism at White Sands and Los Alamos. Extraterritorial is a legal term in which a country projects their domestic laws into a territory outside of their jurisdiction.