Samuel Fradley

A Handshake with a Martian | The idea of exploring the UFO phenomena deprived from my own underlying feeling of the unknown. The fear of the future, the fear of the past and the fear of what surrounds us. The unknown leaves me feeling lost and overwhelmed. Humanity fails to ask and consider the important questions that explains our existence. People will pray to a god that they have never seen or met, but yet the existence of extra-terrestrial life visiting earth is laughed at by some and claimed to be implausible by others. The question is why? Are people too scared to try and discover the truth? or have we been trained to desensitise ourselves from reality and ignore the rebarbative question to why or how we even exist.

Provoked by my inner curiosity into the UFO scene in the United Kingdom, A Handshake with a Martian is a personal investigation into the British UFO phenomena. I embark on a journey that takes me across the UK to try and understand what has occurred. Supported by official declassified documents, this project is a photographic response to my journey. I meet the people who believe in and research UFOS, as well as visit the locations where these famous sightings happened.

This project began in 2018 and is still ongoing as of 2020. www.samuelfradley.com