Paul Hart (photographer)

Paul Hart (born 20 October 1961) is a British landscape photographer. His work “explores our relationship with the landscape, in both a humanistic and socio-historical sense”. Hart’s work has been internationally exhibited. His books include Truncated (2009), Farmed (2016), Drained (2018) and Reclaimed (2020), all published by Dewi Lewis Publishing. In 2018 he was awarded the inaugural Wolf Suschitzky Photography Prize (UK) by the Austrian Cultural Forum, London.
==Life and work==
Hart studied art and design at Lincoln College of Art in 1984 and graduated from Nottingham Trent University|Trent Polytechnic with a BA Hons in Photography in 1988. He currently lives in Lincolnshire, England. He works solely with the black and white analogue process, using large format and medium format film cameras, 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 Lady Bower Reservoir in the Peak District National Park resulting in the series and book Truncated. In 2009 he began photographing the landscape of East Anglia and made a series of photographs in The Fens. This initiated a ten-year project which resulted in a three-part series on the region: Farmed (2009–2015), Drained (2016–2017) and Reclaimed (2018–2019).
==Publications==
===Publications by Hart===
* Truncated. Stockport: Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2009. . With an introduction by Gerry Badger. 
* Farmed. Stockport: Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2016. . With an introduction by Collier Brown. 1st edition: 2016, 2nd edition: 2018.
* Drained. Stockport: Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2018. . With an introduction by Francis Hodgson. 1st edition: 2018, 2nd edition: 2020.
* Reclaimed. Stockport: Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2020. . With an introduction by Isabelle Bonnet published in English and French. 1st edition: 2020.
===Publications with contributions by Hart===
* Into the Woods: Trees in Photography: London: V&A/Thames & Hudson, 2019. Martin Barnes 
* Looking at Images. Anacortes: Lenswork Publishing, 2014. Brooks Jensen 
* Photo Projects. London: Argentum, 2006. Chris Dickie 
==Exhibitions==
===Solo exhibitions===
* Nature’s Solace, Jaggedart, London, 2006
* The Naked Land, Jaggedart, London, 2012
* Truncated, Atlas Gallery, London, 2013
* Poetry of Place, The Photographers' Gallery, London, 2018
* Edgelands, Fen Ditton Gallery, Cambridge, UK, 2020
===Selected group exhibitions===
* Acte 2 Galerie, Prix de la Photographie Awards, Paris, France, 2009
* Royal Academy of Arts, Summer Exhibition, London, 2012
* Atlas Gallery, Collected Works, London, 2014
* Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Garden Photographer of the Year, London, 2016
* Espace Beaurepaire, Prix de la Photographie Awards, Paris, France, 2016
* Na Kashirke Gallery, Moscow International Photographer Awards, Moscow, 2016
* The Photographers’ Gallery, When Frost was Spectre-Gray, London, 2016
* University of Cambridge, Artificial Things, Cambridge, UK, 2017
* Centre Culturel ARCADE, La Campagne, Sainte-Colombe, France, 2018 
* Royal Academy of Arts, Summer Exhibition, London, 2018
* Royal Photographic Society, International Photography Exhibition 161, Bristol, UK, 2019 touring exhibition to: Mac, Birmingham, UK. Royal Albert Hall, London. Municipal Gallery, Dublin, Eire.
* Austrian Cultural Forum, London, Wolf Suschitzky Photography Prize, 2019
* Royal Academy of Arts, Summer Exhibition, London, 2019
* Fen Ditton Gallery, Land Lines, Cambridge, UK, 2019 with Fay Godwin (1931-2005) and Mark Steinmetz
==Awards==
* 2008: Prix de la Photographie, Px3|PX3, Paris, France. Second Prize, Fine Art Series for Truncated.
* 2009: Prix de la Photographie, PX3, Paris, France. Second Prize, monograph for Truncated.
* 2016: Moscow Foto Awards, Russia. Bronze Award, Fine Art Series for Farmed.
* 2016: Tokyo International Foto Awards, Japan. Bronze Award, Fine Art Series for Farmed.
* 2016: Prix de la Photographie, PX3, Paris, France. First Prize, Fine Art Series, Monograph and People’s Choice for Farmed.
* 2018: Mark Rothko Memorial Trust Award, Daugavpils, Latvia. Shortlist for Farmed and Drained.
* 2018-2019: Wolf Suschitzky Photo Prize, London & Vienna. UK Winner for Farmed and Drained.
==Collections==
* Victoria and Albert MuseumPermanent Collection
* Museum of Modern Art Library
==In the media==
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==External links==
www.paulhartphotography.com
== References ==
Category:British photographers
Category:British portrait photographers
Category:Photographers