DAWN

Devoid of any tangible content, a blast of early morning light seen from the hills of the Peak District becomes an ephemeral and sensorial distillation of time, space, light and colour.

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Having been involved in creating photographs for 40 years, and in recent years being bombarded by images from all quarters, I have come to wonder what there is left to photograph. This has led me to question what a photograph is - to look at the fundamentals of the process and to skirt around the edges of what can, and what can’t be photographed. John Berger described photography as being more like music than any other visual art, and like a musician finding perfect pitch and key, at what point on the curve do we find the perfect note, when do things resonate and the sum of the parts combine to become greater than the whole.