Photosynthesis Fine Art Photography and Printing is a small creative enterprise established in Lancaster June 2004, specializing in monochrome fine art landscape photography firmly rooted in the creative monochrome tradition. We supply fine art galleries, the fine art wholesale trade, restaurants and corporate clients in the North and North West of England with beautiful and inspiring photographic images.

I have been photographing landscapes for many years, and graduated from Lancaster University in 1994 with a first-class arts degree. After graduating, I began to establish a reputation for innovative landscape photography, and created Photosynthesis Fine Art Photography and Printing to print and supply my work to a growing network of art galleries. I also became tutor in digital imaging and photography at Lancaster University.

Statement of Artistic Intent:

“My work focuses on the elemental beauty of natural landscapes. The land and our environment has become a powerful and consistent aesthetic reference for beauty in every culture, particularly as pure landscapes or wilderness are so rare and threatened today. My photography aims to isolate elemental purity and simplicity, and to explore the longing many of us have for pure landscapes. My images are a personal and public reminder of our vital heritage, emphasizing form, pattern, and time in the landscape as a source of meaning and personal reference. Ultimately, my photography is about mystery, the past, and its connection to the present as an important source of meaning.”

It was Henri Cartier-Bresson who said, “I take pictures to find myself and hope that I hit the bull’s eye”. My work represents some of the moments in my endeavours where I hope I have ‘hit the bull’s eye.’!

Influencers:

Ansel Adams, Michael Kenna, Paul Kozal, Henri-Cartier-Bresson, Colin Prior.