Paul Hart (photographer)

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

• Poetry of Place, Print Sales Gallery, The Photographers' Gallery, London, 2018[8][9][10]
• Print Sales Gallery, The Photographers' Gallery, London, 2019[11]
• Edgelands, Fen Ditton Gallery, Cambridge, UK, 2020[7][12]

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]

References

1. "V&A Search the Collections/Photographs – Lyn Way". vam.ac.uk. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
2. Paul, Hart. "Paul Hart Biography". paulhartphotography.com. Retrieved 12 October 2020.
3. "Paul Hart : Reclaimed". The Eye of Photography Magazine. 13 April 2020. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
4. "Wolf Suschitzky Photography Prize Exhibition". Austrian Cultural Forum. Retrieved 12 October 2020.
5. Roberts, Elizabeth (14 July 2016). "How the Land Lies". Black and White Photography Magazine. 191 (July 2016). ISSN 1473-2467.
6. Calder, Tracy (14 October 2019). "On Show". Black and White Photography Magazine. 233 (Autumn). ISSN 1473-2467.
7. Phil Coombes. "In Pictures – The Beauty of the Fens". BBC. Retrieved 12 October 2020.
8. "Paul Hart's poetic landscapes". The Eye of Photography Magazine. 5 January 2018. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
9. "Poetry of Place: Paul Hart's Landscapes". The Photographers' Gallery. 27 November 2017. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
10. Strecker, Alexander. "Poetry of Place: Rooted in the English Landscape – Photographs by Paul Hart: Review by Alexander Strecker". LensCulture. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
11. "Paul Hart". Wall Street International. 8 August 2019. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
12. "Humanity and the Land". Aesthetica. Retrieved 12 October 2020.
13. Summer Exhibition 2012 list of works. London: Royal Academy of Arts. 14 June 2012. ISBN 978-1-9075334-9-5.
14. "RA Summer Exhibition 2018". Royal Academy of Arts. Retrieved 12 October 2020.
15. "RA Summer Exhibition 2019". Royal Academy of Arts. Retrieved 12 October 2020.
16. Segal-Hamilton, Rachel (1 December 2018). "Respectful approach lands prize win". The RPS Journal. 160. ISSN 1468-8670.

External links

• Official website