About
2023
Surreal Biophilic Woodland Photography
2023
Richard Waller makes surreal woodland biophilic art photographs. He grew up in the Pennine valleys between Wuthering Heights and November Graveyard, an area Ted Hughes called the Remains of Elmet and Turner painted many times; this undoubtedly fostered a love for poetry and nature that is reflected in the pictures Richard makes with the film cameras and lenses of his youth, the sixties and seventies, using the multiple exposure technique to convey the energy and mystery of the forest. In order to offset the paper and wood on which his pictures are printed, Richard plants a fruit tree for every print sold. He moved to Italy in the early eighties and is now based in Marola, a village on a crest with a magnificent view of the Apennine mountains and surrounded by steep valleys of chestnut woods.