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“Travels & Trains”
Varied photographs from around the world, including striking images of the last remaining working steam locomotives to be found in China.


David Hill has traveled extensively around the world during the last thirty-five years, and returned from his wanderings with a varied collection of images. Subjects range from the deserts of West Africa to the peaks of the Himalayas; from the wilds of New Zealand to more gentle  blue-bell woods of West Sussex.

His other ‘passion’ which has an element of urgency, is to  photograph the world’s last remaining working  steam locomotives which are only to  be found in China. To this end, he has made eight trips, mainly in the depths of the severe Chinese winters, to record this passing industrial scene.

Even if steam trains don’t normally get you ‘fired up’, these striking images,  depicting the  associated grime and pollution, also convey the sense of power of the subject.