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“Landscape photography is about the coming together of many things, it’s about the place of course, but it is also about the temperature, the time, the season, the preconceptions, the history, how long ago it rained…and the detail. I am involved in the search for a cohesion of these things that go into a photograph which, for the most part, lasts only a fraction of a second. What I am after as a photographer is the point at which these pulses resonate at the same time and make us feel like we are really there; we have for a brief moment, a place in the landscape.”

Harry Cory Wright, April 2008

Harry Cory Wright is a renowned landscape photographer working within the landscape of Great Britain. His large format photographs are a result of many hours of waiting and watching. Using a 10x8 inch wooden Gandolfi plate camera he rarely takes more than one shot per view, enjoying the tension between contemplation, observation and ‘missing the moment’ that this allows.

In 1998 Cory Wright began to document different elements of the coastline of Britain and Ireland through collections of extraordinary colour photographs. In 1999 he set up Saltwater Books Ltd to publish series of these photographs in book format. This ongoing project culminated in a commission from Merrell Publishing; the book Journey through the British Isles was published in 2007 to great acclaim, it is now in its second edition.

Harry Cory Wright was born in 1963 in Surrey. He lives in Norfolk with his family.

THE CAMERA

Harry works with a large format Gandolfi 10 x 8 inch wooden plate camera. He uses just a single 240mm lens, which is a medium wide angle. The tripod is the heaviest manfrotto studio tripod available. The apparatus is very heavy and moving around too much is difficult and often unnecessary. Photographing with this camera requires a combination of anticipation and patience.
The film is standard negative emulsion, mostly Fuji. It is much the same as is used in standard small cameras. The difference of course is in the size of the negative.