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Description: | Colour photograph mounted on aluminium. This picture of the Thorpe marshes near Haddiscoe is from a series of six photographs entitled 'All Yesterday's and Today's', taken of locations in the east of England by the Norfolk-based photographer Mark Edwards. He uses the irrigation system, which was put in place to transform these marshes into fields, as a compositional device to lead our eyes through the picture. While the ditches are prominent, criss-crossing across the marsh, the land is open and empty of use. Edwards sourced the locations for each photograph by looking at an Ordnance Survey map and pinpointing places of interest. He visited each chosen location at different times of year, becoming accustomed to the landscape and its seasonal changes. The photographs were taken using a large-format camera, a tripod and a stepladder, referencing the pioneering landscape photography of the nineteenth century. The vast landscapes, captured in a soft and even light, are empty of human characters and the height of the viewpoint leaves us feeling as if we have somehow not imposed ourselves onto the scene.
Mark Edwards was born in 1965. He studied for a postgraduate diploma in photography at De Montfort University in 1997 and the following year continued on at the University to study for an MA. Recent exhibitions have included 'Kettle's Yard Open' at Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, in 2002, and 'Traces and Elements' at the Bend in the River Gallery, Gainsborough, in 1996. | Rights holder: | © Mark Edwards | Subjects: | field stream telegraph pole path landscape c21st electrical pylon | Temporal: | 2002 | Source: | Government Art Collection | Creator: | Mark Edwards | Identifier: | http://www.gac.culture.gov.uk/work.aspx?... | Go to resource |
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