Joe Cornish

Joe graduated with a fine art degree from Reading University in 1980, and then worked as an assistant to commercial photographers in Washington DC and London in the early 1980s. His knowledge of the view camera, and of lighting was learned here. After assisting he travelled extensively in Europe, contributing the photographs for numerous travel books. He now lives in North Yorkshire and has spent the last sixteen years devoted to landscape photography, his working territory being the north of England and Scotland.

His freelance commissions with the National Trust have continued over twenty years and an environmental focus defines his work.Travels in Alaska and elsewhere in the United States have convinced him of the vital need to conserve the earth’s remaining wilderness regions for future generations. While in the UK he concentrates on human occupation of the land, and landscapes that express wildness. He remains a very active working photographer and is part of the 2020Vision team of environmental photographers.

Joe is the author of the best-selling and influential book, First Light, a Landscape Photographer’s Art. His 2009 book, Scotland’s Mountains, a Landscape Photographer’s View, has been hailed as a classic of its kind. Recent works include the book, Joe Cornish, a Photographer at Work by Eddie Ephraums, and the full length documentary film, With Landscape in Mind. He is co-director of a publishing company and gallery based in Northallerton, North Yorkshire.

A renowned thinker on photography, he has led workshops, given talks, and written magazine articles for the British photo press for two decades. A dedicated large format photographer who worked on 5x4inch almost exclusively since the 1990s, Joe also uses Phase One medium format digital, principally on a Linhof Techno. He prints most of his own work using an Epson 7900.

In 2006 Joe received The Amateur Photographer’s Power of Photography Award, and in 2008 he was made an Hon Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society. In 2010 he was named among the Outdoor Photographer magazine’s group of 40 of the world’s most influential nature photographers, and he was also in the book, the World’s Top photographers, Landscape.

In 2011 he was on the judging panel of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year and has acted as the competition judge’s ambassador on the Alan Titchmarsh show and in other media events.

Website:
www.joecornishgallery.co.uk