Saddleworth: Responding to A Landscape

• Prize
  Silver in Book/Nature
• Photographer
  Matthew Murray
• Agency / Studio
  Matthew Murray
• Technical Info
  5x4 Camera, Car Headlights, Mobile Phone Lights, Location Lighting, Coloured Gels.

Saddleworth: Responding to a Landscape is a photographic odyssey of landscape work. The work focuses on light, nature and geology. The series is a personal expression of the landscape after Murray became full time carer for his father-in-law who had been was diagnosed with vascular dementia and alzheimer's. The results are rich, painterly and reminiscent of Dutch seventeenth century landscape painter Jacob Van Ruisdael. The intimate insight and obsessive study allows audiences to think about their own experience and emotion when faced with landscape and nature.