Signs lead to nowhere. They point off the frame towards the unknown. Fee has photographed abandoned cars and abandoned homes. A silhouetted figure appears in the street, surrounded by the dark and encroaching buildings. The figure has nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.
Signposts glow, building towers loom in an undefined space, the process of industrialization lurks.
The where is less important to Fee than the feeling the image evokes. Whether it is a photograph of a sinking ship or an empty street, Fee's images refer to the notion of abandonment, of a time gone by, of an unpopulated world where nature and architecture coexist. Cars, boats and factories are all placed within the city, his frame of reference. There is a dream-like quality to all of Fee's work. Often the photographs are out of focus or soft, and the negatives are stained to give the illusion of age.