Joe Cornish
Joe was born in Exeter in 1958, he went to reading university and studied art.
His love for the outdoors encouraged him first to pursue travel work, when he first met Charlie Waite in 1986 this helped provide both an important and outgoing source of inspiration friendship and natural cooperation.
Around 1991 he began a working relationship with the national trust photolibrary that still continues to this day.
The North York moors are Joes personal favourite place, he also likes other outstanding landscapes of northern England and these are all a source of inspiration for Joe and not too far away.
He also has a deep affinity for Scotland’s magnificent coast and mountains and he has travelled widely throughout the UK for the National trust, specialising in particular on the coastline.
Joe has continued to be involved in books, having contributed heavily too many National Trust publications, especially coast and countryside published in 1996.
His first book as an author was first light a landscape photographers art 2002 now is in it firth printing.
More recently he wrote and photographed Scotland’s coast photographer’s journey and shot the pictures for Urbino, (a hill town in central Italy) a rare departure into architectural photography.
In 1999 Joe started Joegraphic with designers Joni and Joe Essex, a business devoted to producing a range of cards and calendars. This has since grown and its now developing into “Joe Cornish Galleries “ as a trademark it includes the production of limed edition prints two galleries and embraces a publishing programme that also features the work of other fine photographers.
Joe has given lectures on landscape photography throughout the UK and as far New Zealand.
He is also coming to Burton Collage on the 8/12/2010 to give a lecture on landscape so it will be nice to meet him and hopefully learn from him.
DRYSTONE WALL, WINTER DAWN
A sharp frost can create a myriad of opportunities, and this drystone wall had the remnants of the previous day's frost intact on its north side.
BEACH PEBBLES, FLADDABISTER, SHETLAND
The pebbles are wet and make this photo look sharp and clean and the colours stand out.
FERNS AND RANSOMS
Soft shadowless lighting avoids excessive contrast.
DARK DAY LIGHT, RANNOCH MOOR
The shape and rhythms of the land are on a grand scale and the composition is intended to reflect this.
The river makes you follow it with your eyes.
DARK SUN RISING, SOUND OF RAASAY
Shooting it to the sun is normally a technical disaster, but here the clouds are thick enough to risk it.
SUMMER EVENING ABOVE SWAINBY
The success of the picture owes almost everything to the sky.
OFFSHORE SQUALL, WEST PIER, WHITBY
The causeway makes your eyes follow it and makes you focus on the sky as well.
ST MARY'S LIGHTHOUSE
A mellow evening light and the encroaching tide have softened the hard angularity of the foreground rocks in this composition.
