Although Paul Graham’s approach to photography emerges from his involvement with the documentary tradition, the subjects of his scrutiny are revealed through a play of metaphor where disregarded everyday scenes are often linked with and reflect on a concurrent momentous event. Union Jack Flag in Tree, County Tyrone is one of a group of six works by Graham from a series that reflects on The Troubles in Northern Ireland. The photographs suggest how the landscape within Northern Ireland is defined by divisions and boundaries, both seen and unseen. The compositionally subtle nature of these inscriptions – here the marking out of unionist territory by the use of an isolated tree as a discreet flagpole – opens up ways in which the image can be read. Graham does not record these variously loaded inscriptions as isolated markings but as fully part of a landscape that holds history as much as it frames the present.