Not for the first time, Banks regarded the bleak, post-industrial landscape of his hometown with a mixture of nostalgia and horror.
Unlike pictures of steel mills from earlier in the century, which usually feature belching smokestacks and busy workers, these photographs record a post-industrial landscape that is eerily still.
Writer Jonathan Horsley described it as marking "the genre's perilous rite of passage through Britain's post-industrial urban landscape."
Carn Brea monument appears on its moorland hilltop, presiding over a post-industrial landscape of abandoned tin mines.
The decline of manufacturing on the lower river has left a post-industrial landscape of abandoned and disused factories and other facilities.
"What we have now is a post-industrial landscape no longer polluted by coal mines and factory chimneys."
The series was set in South Wales and featured a variety of post-industrial, rural, urban and seaside landscapes.
Consumption takes the place of production in the post-industrial landscape.
Today a stark post-industrial landscape, Duquesne has fewer total residents (5,565 at the 2010 U.S. census) than were the city's mill workers in 1948.
Stroll through an indoor forest, enjoy a river-cruise dinner through a post-industrial landscape, hit the floor in a breakdance workshop or see your heartbeat in lights.