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Subcribe to comment rss feedSo what is "On Landscape" about then? Well, it's simply about landscape photography. Which is great but that leaves a lot of room for maneuvre still, for instance what exactly is landscape photography? I've had this discussion on my personal blog a couple of times and the closer you look at it the more the edges blur. There are some areas that we'll say aren't landscape photography just to try to apply some amount of continuity. For instance, if a photograph can be described as Urban Photography, then it probably isn't landscape photography as this site defines it. The same goes for Architectural Photography, Wildlife Photography and Macro Photography. There will be fuzzy areas and we will bend the rules on occasion (think of the website editorial policy as being a benevolent dictatorship rather than a democratic free for all).
But what sort's of landscape photography are we going to look at? Well, think of the classics of landscape photography, Ansel Adams, Eliot Porter, David Muench, etc culminating in their modern day ancestors, Christopher Burkett, Charles Cramer Paul Wakefield, etc and then throw in some of the landscape photography from the art community, Edward Weston, Minor White, Robert Adams, etc continuing with present day ancestors Joel Sternfeld, Edward Burtysky, Gem Southam. Throw in some in betweens such as David Ward, Andrew Nadolski and Michael Kenna. There are a huge number of British photographers that are working in between all of these genres or styles, from bold romantic to post-modern deadpan. Even though both myself and Joe work around the romantic end of these genres, we both have an interest in all forms of photography that use the landscape and composition to create an artistic result; that combine art and craft to produce something admirably creative.