John Volynchook travelled by bicycle and on foot to photograph fragments of UK landscapes under threat from fracking. The images in his book Faultlines were made between 2015 and 2021 and inspired by the stories gathered from people he met along the way. The contested lands shown are mainly situated in the North-West and North-East of England with some running along coastal areas of the South. These regions were under threat from shale gas exploration and extraction, licensed by the UK Oil and Gas Authority, using the method of hydraulic fracturing known as 'fracking.' The ongoing need to balance the energy security of the nation with the environmental concerns of climate change, industrialisation of the countryside, pollution, and biodiversity, rendered the debate around fracking highly contentious. The black and white photographs depict the myriad of details in the landscapes—the textures of grass and rocky outlets, fungi emerging from a bed of leaves, stretches of water interspersed by plants, beds of ferns and natural cracks running through the earth. The images are far removed from the clinical grid references identifying their location using the Ordnance Survey mapping service.