Ashenground · West SussexThirty years of photographing open spaces, and these days the camera often travels by bike.
I have been photographing for over thirty years, drawn always to open spaces: the downs, the fells, the coast, and the big skies between them.
These days the camera often travels by bike. Long distance cycling has become part of how I find the frames, covering the quiet lanes and ridgeways slowly enough to notice the light changing, and to stop when it does.
Most of what you see here was reached under my own steam and waited for. A few minutes of good light can take a whole morning of standing still. That patience, I have come to think, is the real subject of the photographs.
Home is West Sussex, with the South Downs on the doorstep, and the work moves between here and the wilder edges: the Howgills, the Cotswold lanes, the far north in winter. Wherever it is made, I am looking for the same thing, land, light, and enough quiet to hear both.
The frames are found on long rides and quiet lanes, at the pace where the light gets noticed rather than passed.
Prints come signed in the border, never across the image, on archival paper through a fine art lab.
Collections open for a window, then come down. It keeps the work considered rather than endless.
— Stuart
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Photography · 51°N–64°N