Paul Hart
British photographer Paul Hart (b. 1961) is interested in our relationship with the landscape from both a cultural and an environmental perspective.
His work examines human-altered topography and our occupation and stewardship of the land, usually concentrating on one specific geographical region where he photographs intensively over a number of years. He works primarily with the black and white analogue process, using large and medium format film cameras, and his practice involves all aspects of the photographic process from the negative through to the gelatin silver print.
1961 | Born : Deal (UK)
education
BA (Hons) Photography : Nottingham Trent University (UK) 1985 - 1988
BA (Hons) Photography : London College of Printing (UK) 1985
Art & Design Foundation Diploma : Lincoln College of Art (Lincoln, UK) 1983 - 1984
awards
Hariban Award (Kyoto, Japan) Shortlist : 2019
Wolf Suschitzky Photography Prize (London/Vienna) inaugural UK Winner : 2018 / 2019
Mark Rothko Memorial Trust Award (Daugavpils, Latvia) Shortlist : 2018
Prix de la Photographie (Paris, France) 1st Prize : Farmed monograph & Farmed series / 2nd Prize : People’s Choice 2016
Tokyo International FotoAwards (Japan) Third Prize : Farmed series : 2016
Moscow Foto Awards (Russia) Third Prize : Farmed series : 2016
Prix de la Photographie (Paris, France) Second Prize : Truncated monograph : 2009
Prix de la Photographie (Paris, France) Second Prize : Truncated series : 2008
solo exhibitions
2022 Etherton Gallery - Paul Hart : The Fens (Tucson, USA) April 5 - May 28
2020 Fen Ditton Gallery - Edgelands (Cambridge, UK) Sept - Oct
2019 Fen Ditton Gallery - Land Lines (Cambridge, UK) Oct (invited artists Fay Godwin / Mark Steinmetz)
2019 The Photographers’ Gallery Print Room - Drained (London, UK) July
2018 The Photographers’ Gallery Print Room - Poetry of Place (London, UK) Jan - Feb
2013 Atlas Gallery- Truncated (London, UK) Jan - March (on-line)
2012 Jaggedart - The Naked Land (London, UK) - Feb - March
2006 Jaggedart - Nature’s Solace (London, UK) - Nov - Dec
selected group exhibitions / art fairs
2022
Auckland Photography Festival : VITAL IMPACTS (NZ) upcoming June
Photo London : Somerset House - Dewi Lewis Publishing (UK) May
FOTO WIEN - Rethinking Nature : Festival Centre (Vienna, Austria) March
Hastings Contemporary - A Generous Space : ASP Shows (UK) until April
2021
Paris Photo : Grand Palais Éphémère - Dewi Lewis Publishing (France) Nov
Carpintaria de São Lázaro - Rethinking Nature : Imago Lisboa (Portugal) Oct
Fen Ditton Gallery - WATER / LAND (Cambridge, UK) Oct
Casino Luxembourg - Rethinking Nature : European Month of Photography (Luxembourg) May
2020
Fen Ditton Gallery - Plant Life (Cambridge, UK) Oct
Photo London Digital - Dewi Lewis Publishing (UK) Oct
2019
Hull International Photography Festival - RPS International Print Exhibition 161 (UK) Oct
Photo London : Somerset House - Dewi Lewis Publishing (UK) May
Royal Academy of Arts - Summer Exhibition (London, UK) June
Municipal Gallery - RPS International Print Exhibition 161 (Dublin, Eire) July
The Photographers’ Gallery Print Room - Spring Salon Show (London, UK) May
Midland Arts Centre - RPS International Print Exhibition 161 (Birmingham, UK) March
Austrian Cultural Forum - Wolf Suschitzky Photography Prize (London, UK) Feb
Royal Photographic Society RPS International Print Exhibition 161 (Bristol, UK) Feb
2018
Fen Ditton Gallery - Trees Observed (Cambridge, UK) Sept
Royal Academy of Arts - Summer Exhibition (London, UK) June
Photo London : Somerset House - The Photographers’ Gallery (UK) May
Centre Culturel ARCADE - La Campagne (Sainte-Colombe, France) May
The Photographers’ Gallery Print Room - Spring Salon Show (London, UK) April
2017
University of Cambridge - Artificial Things : ART at the ARB (UK) - Jan
The Photographers’ Gallery Printroom : SummerSalon Show (London, UK) -Aug
2016
The Photographers’ Gallery Print Room - When Frost was Spectre-grey (London, UK) Dec
Paris Photo : Grand Palais - Eric Franck / Augusta Edwards Fine Art (France) Nov
Na Kashirke Gallery - Moscow International Foto Awards (Russia) Aug
Espace Beaurepaire - Prix de la Photographie Awards (Paris, France) July
Photo London : Somerset House - Eric Franck Fine Art (UK) May
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew - International Garden Photographer Awards (London, UK) Jan
2015 - 2009
The Photographers’ Gallery Print Room - Winter Salon Show (London, UK) Sept 2015
The Photography Show by AIPAD : Eric Franck Fine Art (NYC) April 2015
Atlas Gallery - Collected Works (London, UK) March 2014
Royal Academy of Arts - Summer Exhibition (London, UK) June 2013
London Art Fair : Business Design Centre (London, UK) Jaggedart | Jan 2012
Paris Photo : Grand Palais : Eric Franck Fine Art (France) Nov 2011
London Art Fair : Business Design Centre : Jaggedart (UK) Jan 2011
London Art Fair : Business Design Centre : Jaggedart (UK) Jan 2010
Paris Photo : Carrousel du Louvre : Eric Franck Fine Art (France) Nov 2009
The Photography Show by AIPAD :Eric Franck Fine Art (NYC) April 2009
Acte 2 Galerie : Prix de la Photographie Awards Exhibition (Paris, France) July 2009
residencies and collaborations
Wolf Suschitzky Photography Prize Residency : Vienna (Austria) : 2021
Ilford Photo International marketing campaign images : 2011 - present
Getty Images represent Hart’s early horticultural photography : 1995 - present
permanent collections
V&A Museum (London, UK) : Farmed series prints : 2019
Ivor Braka Collection (London / Norfolk, UK) : Truncated and Farmed series prints : 2018
Austrian Cultural Forum (London, UK) : Drained series prints : 2019
monographs
Reclaimed : Dewi Lewis Publishing (Stockport, UK) first edition 2020
Drained : Dewi Lewis Publishing (Stockport, UK) - first edition 2018, second 2019
Farmed: Dewi Lewis Publishing (Stockport, UK) - first edition 2016, second 2019 - out of print
Truncated: Dewi Lewis Publishing (Stockport UK) - first edition 2009 - out of print
publications/essays
Another Country : Gerry Badger - Thames & Hudson (London, UK) May 2022
Denatured Landscape : Isabelle Bonnet - Reclaimed : Dewi Lewis Publishing (UK) 2020
Into the Woods : Martin Barnes : V&A/Thames & Hudson (London, UK) Sept 2019
Picturing the Polder : Francis Hodgson - Drained : Dewi Lewis Publishing (UK) 2018
Looking at Images : Brooks Jensen : LensWork Publishing (Anacortes, USA) Oct 2014
Constructing Fate : Collier Brown - Farmed : Dewi Lewis Publishing (UK) 2016
Meetings with Unremarkable Trees : Gerry Badger - Truncated : Dewi Lewis Publishing (UK) 2009
selected press
2022
L’Oeil de la Photographie - The Fens exhibition feature : Jean Jacques Naudet (France) April (on-line)
Kwerfeldein - The Fenland Trilogy : Aileen Wessely (Germany) 28 March (on-line)
Amateur Photographer Magazine : An Absolute Lack of Melodrama : Damien Demolder (UK) Jan (print)
2021
ARTDOC Photography Magazine : RECLAIMED Documentary Stories : Sept (on-line)
2020
Blind Magazine - Denatured Landscape : Isabelle Bonnet / Jonas Cuénin (France) Dec (on-line)
BBC News - The Beauty of the Fens : Phil Coombes (UK) Sept (on-line)
PhotoBook Journal - Reclaimed : Douglas Stockdale (USA) Sept (on-line)
All About Photo - Edgelands : Sandrine Hermand-Grisel (USA) Sept (on-line)
Black + White Photography #241 : The Trilogy : Francis Hosgson (UK) May (print)
L’Oeil de la Photographie - Reclaimed : Gillies Decamps (USA) April (on-line)
2019
L’Oeil de la Photographie - Land Lines : Jean Jacques Naudet (France) Oct (on-line)
Aesthetica Magazine - Landscape Histories :Eleanor Sutherland (UK) Sept (on-line)
Black + White Photography #233 - On Show/Land Lines : Tracy Calder (UK) Aug (print)
B&W Minimalism Magazine #16 - Drained (USA) April (print)
fLIP Magazine #42 - Drained : Tim Butcher (UK) April (print)
Photobook Journal - Drained : Douglas Stockdale (USA) March (on-line)
L’Oeil de la Photographie - Drained : Jean Jacques Naudet (France) Feb (on-line)
2018
Black + White Photography #222 -The Flat Country : Francis Hodgson (UK) Nov (print)
RPS Journal vol 158 - My Place : Rachel Segal-Hamilton (UK) Oct (print)
On Landscape 167 - Featured Photographer (UK) Sept (on-line)
Daily Telegraph Saturday Review - Viewfinder : Iona MacLaren (UK) 03/02/18 (print)
LensCulture - Rooted in the English Landscape : Alex Streckker (France) Jan (on-line)
Aesthetica Magazine (UK) Poetry of Place : Eleanor Sutherland (UK) Jan (on-line)
L’Oeil de la Photographie - Paul Hart’s Poetic Landscapes :Jonas Cuénin (France) Jan (on-line)
2017
Papier Magazine 21 - Apprenez à parler aux arbres : Aurélie Luneau (France) - (print)
LensCulture - Farmed : Alexander Streckker (France) Feb (on-line)
LensWork # 128 - Farmed : Brooks Jensen (USA) Feb (print)
Adore Noir Magazine 36 - Farmed : Chris Kovacs (Canada) Feb (print)
2016
Photomonitor - Farmed : Christiane Monarchi (UK) Nov (on-line)
L’Oeil de la Photographie - Farmed : Jean Jacques Naudet (France) Oct (on-line)
OD Review v1.7 - Paul Hart’s Second Nature : Collier Brown (USA) July (on-line)
Black + White Photography #191 - How The Land Lies : Elizabeth Roberts (UK) June (print)
Photomonitor - Photo London Highlights : Simon Bowcock (UK) May (on-line)
Daily Telegraph - Bleak Beauty of The Fens : Anna Pavord (UK) 14/05/16 (print)
i-newspaper- Farmed :Sophie Batterbury (UK) 13/05/16 (print)
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Paul HartLedenhall Farm, 2010Gelatin Silver PrintPaper
61 x 50.8 cms
24 x 20 ins
Image
43.2 x 43.2 cms
17 x 17 insView more detailsPaul Hart, Ledenhall Farm, 2010£ 1,500.00 -
Paul HartCatchwater Drain, 2016Gelatin Silver PrintPaper
61 x 50.8 cms
24 x 20 ins
Image
43.2 x 43.2 cms
17 x 17 insView more detailsPaul Hart, Catchwater Drain, 2016£ 1,500.00
