Harry Cory Wright

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- Natural Cosmic
  
  Natural Cosmic
  
  A new series for 2020 Photo London.
  
  For what seems like a long time I have looked for intense, peaceful moments in landscape. This desire has led me to many places in the British Isles. For the most part I have gravitated to woodlands, rivers and salt marsh, generally avoiding higher ground. The reason for this is not because I dislike a good view, but rather because this camera and lens has a fantastic ability to make you feel you are part of the scene you are photographing. It’s to do with perspective I think; the complicated relationships between foreground and background
  
  In these new pictures I have become interested in how far I can pursue this idea of immersion when looking at vast open spaces of simply air water and cosmic activity.
  
  They are all taken close to home overlooking the North Sea at moments of intensely high atmospheric pressure.
- Six Hour Place
  
  Six Hour Place
  
  The fleeting nature of ‘place’ in tidal landscape.
  More cosmic than organic.
- Anglia
  
  Anglia
  
  Anglia is a series that juxtaposes aspects of East Anglian history and landscape. Medieval brass memorials of knights in armour, early fenland water pumps of exquisite mechanical beauty and American Bomber cockpits in deep blue moonlight come together to evoke a place of fantastical adventure.
- Hey Charlie 2013
  
  Hey Charlie 2013
  
  2013
  
  Hey Charlie is a celebration of fifty years of Cory Wright’s involvement with a particular bend in a river and the field beside it. These joyful images are the culmination of a lifetime of experience of the place in which he grew up and to which he has stayed connected throughout his life.
  
  As reflected in the title. Cory Wright calls his brother’s name – a child’s shout, an adult’s beckoning – to coax him into causing a stir in a place they know so well. They are allowed once again to be little gods. They create interruptions in the otherwise placid landscape; set off rockets into an evening sky; peer inquisitively into a haze of smoke creeping around a river bend. These striking and transient impulses, and the photographs in which they are captured, were intended to shake off the burden of the past and of nostalgia, and to provoke the making of new memories; to re-imagine, reshape and reawaken a much-loved place.
- Place in Mind
  
  Place in Mind
  
  2011
  
  “This camera reveals a strong sense of place. I am intrigued by its ability to drink in and reveal such detail. In this series I want to use this almost tangible, realistic quality of the photograph to explore notions of the imagination, the ethereal and the unspecific. What are the places we think and dream of? What are the landscapes of our mind? I chose to photograph places therefore that I had a strong perception of even before I had been there.
  
  This is therefore less about specificity, time and place… more about breadth, emotion, preconception… and having a ‘place in mind'”
  
  HCW
- Marsh
  
  Marsh
  
  2016. A series of drawings and photographs of saltmarsh in North Norfolk.
  Book available here.
- Gravity and the weight of things 2004
  
  Gravity and the weight of things 2004
  
  Concentrating on the feeling of density in a place.
- Journey Through the British Isles
  
  Journey Through the British Isles
  
  A six month circular tour through the landscape of the British Isles. Starting off at the spring equinox in Shetland, down through the borders into Northumberland, Yorkshire then out west to Cornwall. The journey started off as document to list the variety of sights we see in the British landscape, but soon became a personal of quest to find its very heart. Southern England through a hot midsummer before back north west to the black granite of Skye and all its sense of place and prospect.
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Sensible… then silly

As I am editing this series (Hey Charlie)it seems to grow in stature… only to crash back down to earth when I have been working on the files into the night. The series is based on the reappraisal of a particularly familiar place; to turn away from anything predictable and avoid an approach that I…
Wow… very tidy big place

This is the People’s Square in Shanghai. Immaculate it is.
The darkness and the light

This is my local church, St Marys at dawn. Just the tick of the clock.
The sliver of land at high tide

I am right into places that become something only at certain times. Like here really. The tide comes in and makes this bit of marsh a new thing.. somehow more independent than it was an hour before.
Place Pin Sharp

Mercy will you look at this island. I have seen a few but rarely anything that seems to have such a sense of prospect from the air, such a sense geological jewellery as this. Those cliffs, that little collection of mans work with walls like lain silver thread and such a even plain of grass….
Crabbe Hall Garden

This was… and is no longer home. A part of us still lingers in that place, and perhaps less creepily we all wish that an essence of it were in our new garden, which, as you might imagine, is less. view series
Temperley for Bazaar

These guys were great. It was part of a series of 3 new pictures for new June issue Bazaar. Alice Temperley and her gang, Michael and Emily Eavis and Charles Hazelwood at Glastonbury Abbey. What’s interesting is that I covered each shoot on digital and 10 x8 inch negative… 3 sheets of film on each….
Engagement

Last night there was talk about experience and place, interaction and belonging; the idea that what we do in a place begins to shape it… or at least our perception thereof. This picture from the hard drive I remember well; my son Joe making that stretch of Essex North Sea …all his.
Neg no.1632

Boy… so close to ordering this one up from Grieger as a 2 metre print. Get the magnifier on it and it’s all swoops, dips and dives. Seems to work well with James Brown particularly. Nature got the funk
Somehow Within

Maybe its just the photographic process but sometimes what is not really a place, becomes a place as you take the picture. Here we are after all… amongst it all.
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