On the 7th October 2021 I was delighted to be made a Fellow of The Royal Photographic Society. On this page I have laid out the statement of intent, the 21 image panel and the individual images.

Statement of intent: Out of Darkness

In January 2017 I made the first of seven expeditions into the Gobi Desert of northern China. Having travelled hundreds of miles off road I found myself in a remote and hostile environment where at night the temperatures fell to -26C.

The emptiness of the landscape, while at first daunting, seduced me, asking questions and demanding engagement on an intimate level.

Leaving my tent in the dim light before dawn, I would climb to 1600 feet above an endless vista, devoid of scale apart from the occasional scrubby bush. For a while, the cool, frosted shadows would resist, but finally succumb to the delicate kiss of sunrise and daybreak. I became very much aware of my changing emotions and perspectives as I watched the landscape emerge from darkness into light.

The interplay of luminosity, contrast, colour, geometry and space opened my eyes to a new way of seeing and photographing.

Out of Darkness Gallery
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