Landscape Photography research

Landscape Photography

Landscape photography shows spaces within the world, sometimes vast and unending, but other times microscopic. Photographs typically capture the presence of nature but can also focus on man-made features or disturbances of landscapes.

Paul Raphaelson

Paul Raphaelson (b. 1968, New York, New York, USA), is an American artist best known for urban landscape photography.

In the early 1990s, after moving to Providence, Rhode Island, he started producing formally complex, often dark depictions of the urban, suburban, and industrial landscape. This work, which grew into the project titled "Wilderness" continued to evolve when Raphaelson moved to Brooklyn, New York in 1995. The work went unnoticed by the larger photography art world until it was discovered by Sandra Phillips of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. It later caught the attention of former Museum of Modern Art curator John Szarkowski. Commercial galleries, on the other hand, struggled to find a place for the work, which blurs many lines between classic formal modernism, the politically aware "New Topographics" photography from the 1970s, highly crafted "fine art" photography, and more contemporary explorations of the banal and ironic.

Raphaelson's grandfather was the playwright and screenwriter Samson Raphaelson, who practiced photography as an amateur in the 1950s and early 1960s.

Raphaelson's ongoing projects include explorations in color, digital carbon pigment printing, and hand-made artist's books.

Charlie Waite

Charlie Waite was born in 1949. He is an English landscape photographer, noted for his “painterly” approach in using light and shade.

Born in England, he worked in theatre and television for the first ten years of his professional life before moving to photography. He is noted for his square format images using a 6x6 Hasselblad.

He has lectured throughout the UK, Europe and the United States, published books on photography and is a regular contributor to photography magazines. He also runs and takes part in a photographic tour company called Light and Land.