'newport-land' is a quiet reflection upon the meaning of place where human presence is all but removed, and only the structures, layouts, artefacts and the psychological space remain.
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The rise of a powerful cotton and wool industry, and the building of innumerable mills, canals, railways, chimneys and terraced worker house.
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Why are photographers driven to create their images? What are the emotions that they feel in response to a landscape?
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Taking its cue from these Isles' extraordinarily diverse geology, This Land ranges from the ancient quartzite rocks of the Scottish Highlands to the gritstones and limestones of the English Pennines.
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The boardwalks above are often bustling colourful affairs, as quintessential to the image of the great British summer holiday as ice cream and fish suppers.
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It is said to be the most challenging trail in the British Isles, but probably also the most rewarding as it leads the walker through the most remote and dramatic places of Scotland.
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I grew up in a village in the flatlands. The ancient lands of the village tangled around the church with its tall thirteenth-century spire, its mottled colours of pale, fragile limestone.
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Locked in the confinements of my own space, in a time so unordinary, I attempt to turn my head from the inescapable pandemic. On every newspaper, television and radio station I cannot emerge.
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The annual collection of winning images from #sharemondays in 2020.
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A collection of almost 200 images from the first 5 years as a professional photographer.
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Taken on a camera damaged in a fall from a mountain ridge, the resulting photographs depict a world out of focus, peaks looming menacingly above the viewer.
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I was struck by the overwhelming stillness, the roads and sky seemingly devoid of traffic, the local playground not just empty, but closed; everyone seemingly holed up within the comfort and safety of their own walls.
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Often as I walked towards my subjects, I could swear I could hear the sound of snow. Everything around me became more closed in, more intimate.
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My home locallity based off-shore in NW Scotland allows me to wander from my doorstep into both natural and manmade woodlands and forestry. Trees that cloak the lower slopes of mountains rising from the sea.
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Long Exposure is an extremely fascinating genre of photography which can transform a mundane every day scene into something completely different.
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October 14 2020. Yesterday came the terrible news that Chris Killip has died. One of the finest makers of the most honest photographs, always so helpful, supportive and very kind.
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Less concerned with a concrete depiction of reality, but more so with an emotional and poetic interpretation of the world surrounding him, as well as an exploration of the artistic possibilities oh his photographic medium.
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The space between Japanese houses; they speak of an emptiness that exists physically and still moments that continue.
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Film photographs of rural landscapes and their details, from Blair Atholl, Glen Tilt and Glen Banvie.
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Depicted in deep reds, these landscapes are vibrant, alive and bring the tragedy of the Highland Clearances into focus.
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After the opening song Paul Weller made a comment, ‘you northeners are cold & Industrial’. It’s still not clear to me 40 years on just what he actually meant, but it’s something that has stuck with me ever since.
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A slow journey along the waterways of East London; from the Regent's Canal to the River Lea, discovering unexpected beauty and wilderness in the heart of the city.
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In 1810 botanist, Sir James Edward Smith, published an account of his tour of the Hafod estate entitled: Fifteen views illustrative of a tour to Hadfod in Cardiganshire’.
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Studying what he considers to be the essential attributes of a successful landscape photograph: simplicity, ambiguity and beauty.
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