About this episode

Joe Cornish discusses the art of landscape photography, emphasizing curiosity, collaboration, and environmental awareness.

Joe Cornish has been photographing landscapes professionally since the early 1980s, and few people in the UK have thought more carefully or more deeply about what landscape photography actually is. With an art school background and early influences including Ansel Adams and Edward Weston, Joe has always approached the landscape as an expressive art form rather than simple documentation. That philosophy runs through dozens of books, National Trust commissions, artist in residence projects at Fountains Abbey and Brimham Rocks, and a career that earned him an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society. In this episode Joe talks about cultivating curiosity and visual literacy as foundations for better photography, the value of collaboration and peer learning, and why he finds the craft of editing and printing as creatively satisfying as being out in the field. He also reflects on landscape photography's relationship to environmental change and the role images can play in helping people value the natural world. I hope you enjoy the show! You can find Joe’s work here:Website: https://joecornish.co.uk/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joecornishlandscape Listen to this…

People in this episode

Host: Grant Swinbourne

Guest: Joe Cornish

Topics covered

• landscape photography
• artistic expression
• environmental change
• visual literacy
• collaboration in photography

Keywords

• landscape photography
• Joe Cornish
• visual literacy
• environmental change
• photographic editing

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Royal Photographic Society, National Trust

Places: Fountains Abbey, Brimham Rocks

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