Paul Hart (photographer)
British landscape photographer
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Paul Hart (born 1961) is a British landscape photographer.[1] His work “explores our relationship with the landscape, in both a humanistic and socio-historical sense”.[2] His books include Truncated (2009), Farmed (2016), Drained (2018) and Reclaimed (2020), all published by Dewi Lewis.[3] In 2018 he was awarded the inaugural Wolf Suschitzky Photography Prize (UK) by the Austrian Cultural Forum, London.[4]
Life and work
Hart studied art and design at Lincoln College of Art in 1984 and graduated from Trent Polytechnic with a BA Hons in Photography in 1988.[2] He currently lives in Lincolnshire, England.[2] He works solely with the black and white analogue process, using large format and medium format film cameras,[2] processing and printing all work in his own darkroom. Between 2005 and 2008 Hart produced a series of photographs which explored the pine forest plantations of the Ladybower Reservoir in the Peak District National Park, resulting in the series and book Truncated.[5] In 2009 he began photographing the landscape of East Anglia and made a series of photographs in The Fens.[6] This initiated a ten-year project which resulted in a three-part series on the region: Farmed (2009–15), Drained (2016–17) and Reclaimed (2018–19).[7]
Publications
Publications by Hart
- Truncated. Stockport: Dewi Lewis, 2009. ISBN 978-1-904587-69-9. With an introduction by Gerry Badger.
- Farmed. Stockport: Dewi Lewis, 2016. ISBN 978-1-907893-97-1. With an introduction by Collier Brown. First edition, 2016; second edition, 2018.
- Drained. Stockport: Dewi Lewis, 2018. ISBN 978-1-911306-37-5. With an introduction by Francis Hodgson. First edition, 2018; second edition, 2020.
- Reclaimed. Stockport: Dewi Lewis, 2020. ISBN 978-1-911306-63-4. With an introduction by Isabelle Bonnet in French and with English translation.
Publications with contributions by Hart
- Chris Dickie. Photo Projects: Plan and Publish Your Photography – In Print and on the Internet. London: Argentum, 2006. ISBN 1-902538-44-7.
- Brooks Jensen. Looking at Images: A Deeper Look at Selected Photographs Published in LensWork and LensWork Extended. Anacortes, WA: LensWork, 2014. ISBN 978-0-9904681-0-3.
- Martin Barnes. Into the Woods: Trees in Photography. London: Victoria and Albert Museum/Thames & Hudson, 2019. ISBN 978-0-500-48053-3.
- Gerry Badger. Another Country: British Documentary Photography since 1945. London: Thames & Hudson; Bristol: Martin Parr Foundation, 2022. ISBN 978-0-500-02217-7.
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
Group exhibitions
- Royal Academy of Arts, Summer Exhibition, London, 2012[13]
- Royal Academy of Arts, Summer Exhibition, London, 2018[14]
- Austrian Cultural Forum, London, Wolf Suschitzky Photography Prize, 2019[4]
- Royal Academy of Arts, Summer Exhibition, London, 2019[15]
Awards
- 2018/19: Wolf Suschitzky Photo Prize, Austrian Cultural Forum, London and Vienna. UK Winner for Farmed and Drained.[16]
Collections
- Victoria and Albert Museum: 1 print (as of October 2020)[1]