JOE CORNISH

Having worked as a professional photographer for over 25 years, Joe’s career began in the film and lighting tradition, and his approach today embraces elements of all that he has learned, including the current technology of the digital revolution.

In recent years he has continued to write and make the photographs for books, the latest of which is “Scotland’s Mountains, a Landscape Photographer’s View”. In common with many of Joe’s books, Eddie Ephraums designed this one. Collaboration is one of Joe’s main aspirations in photography, and as well as leading tours and workshops with David Ward, Joe has given talks with wildlife photographer Andy Rouse, exhibited with Kyriakos Kalorkoti, and worked with Eddie, David and Charlie Waite on “Working the Light” and “Developing Vision and Style”.

He was recently commissioned to provide the photographic artwork for a flagship NHS hospital on Teesside. Joe produced sixteen new works, some of which are five metre wide panoramas, all of local landscapes.

In recent years Joe has begun printing his own images and has also learned the digital capture workflow, adopting medium format digital to supplement his large format landscape photography. Landscape itself remains his core inspiration and long distance walking is inseparable from his output. As a tutor his central aim is to help others use their photography to become more active, and learn to connect and empathise with landscape and the cycles of nature.

Joe is an Hon FRPS.