James Dewhirst, Here, They Hide (2022).

Interested in how we look at landscapes, Dewhirst’s latest work considers how looking itself constitutes place and gives it meaning. By photographing often-redundant objects and materials found in the landscape, Dewhirst depicts a fluid encounter with place. Human figures in the images are always anonymous and their own identification with the landscape is deliberately withheld. His process transforms the world into an image – traces that denote absences and loss are echoed by the pictures’ flat tonal range.

James is a recent Photography graduate (2021) and has curated exhibitions; In Amber at Yard, Manchester and There Then Here Now at Bankley Gallery (2022). He is currently Associate Lecturer in Photography at Manchester Metropolitan University.