About me

I am a photographer working from a farm base in the Lake District in England. Learning to take photographs has been something I have done in the between times, inspired by the environment I live in and by poring over the images of celebrated photographers. I look for a found moment in rural spaces where seemingly little happens, in much the way an urban street photographer might capture a found moment in the frantic maelstrom of cities. The landscape is lived and altered and loved and suffered on. It is not pristine or ideal.

In March 2007 I was invited to present my work-in-progress to a workshop on street photography at Photofusion Gallery in London, as an exploration of the possibilities of 'rural' street photography, and later that year I set out to accumulate a serious portfolio after a photograph of mine was selected as one of the final 40 in Tate Modern's 'How We Are Now' competition. That image can be seen in the Tate archive here, and in Gallery I on this website.

"The work is ... deep, quiet, stongly felt and full of a connection to things, the land, the creatures and the hours lived on, with and among them all."

Joel Meyerowitz March 2011