British artist Paul Hart (b. 1961) has photographed the natural world for over thirty five years. He is interested in our relationship with the land from both a cultural and an environmental perspective and is recognised for his photographs of the British landscape.
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 exclusively with the black and white analogue process and is known for his finely crafted gelatin silver prints.
His work is internationally exhibited and resides in many important public and private art collections. Hart is author of four monographs including; TRUNCATED (Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2009) and his latest; RECLAIMED (Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2020) and winner of many awards including Winner of the inaugural Wolf Suschitzky Photography Prize 2018/19 and his latest a nomination for the Louis Roederer Photography Prize for Sustainability 2023.