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Casting light on the subject
Joe Cornish, Charlie Waite and David Ward are three of the UK’s foremost landscape photographers. Together they comprise Light & Land, an outfit that organises landscape photography tours and workshops and has an enthusiastic and loyal following (see www.lightandland.co.uk). Their work is regularly published and all three have written successful books on their favourite subject. Just over a year ago the Light & Land team, in collaboration with Ag’s Eddie Ephraums, produced Working the Light, a book which took a masterclass approach to exploring all aspects of landscape photography through the words and picture of not just themselves, but many of the talented workshop clientele. This second book in the inspirational series follows a similar formula with the work and words of over 50 photographers sitting alongside that of the three authors. They each adopt a slightly contrary position on the business of developing an individual approach to photography and the key elements of vision and style: the subject decides (Cornish); vision determines style (Waite); and style expresses vision (Ward). And each of the contributing photographers expresses their personal thoughts on matters of vision and style, providing context for the examples of their own work published alongside the texts. In a nutshell this is very much about thinking about our photography as a way towards development and progress, and there is a great deal of joined up thinking here, as well as some magnificent imagery. It is seldom easy to pick out the work of the authors from that of their ‘students’.
Developing Vision & Style is published by Envisage Books in limited edition hardback, ISBN 978-0-9541011-1-4 ( see envisagebooks.com for full details), and a paperback edition is available from Argentum, ISBN 978-1-902538-49-5 (aurumpress.co.uk).
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