“Paul Hart is a photographer interested in the slow harvesting of hidden truth from the ordinary places that most of us pass by. He works in an unfashionable idiom with slow cumbrous equipment (not just old-fashioned analogue photography, but medium format analogue photography, slower still) in an unfashionable place. He seeks to find the bits of the land that speak their stories, and to transmit their importance in views in which, typically, the absolute lack of melodrama demands slow looking and brings slow revelation. Hart’s placid, formally peaceful landscape is pregnant with stories that lurk in the mud or the mist. His magic lies in soliciting from his viewers the same half-historical, half-romantic reaction to ploughed fields and straight drainage ditches as he has to them himself.” -Francis Hodgson, Photography Critic and Curator
British photographer Paul Hart (b. 1961) has photographed the natural world for over thirty five years. He is interested in our relationship with the landscape from both a cultural and an environmental perspective and makes contemplative landscape photographs of familiar subjects in often overlooked places. He works in the classic photographic tradition, employing analogue film cameras and traditional darkroom techniques to enhance his visual narrative.
Hart has exhibited and published widely - he is known for the trilogy ; Farmed / Drained / Reclaimed (2009-19) and Truncated (2009) and is recognised for his exquisite gelatin silver prints. His photographs reside in major collections including the Victoria & Albert Museum, The MoMA Library Collection and the Martin Parr Foundation.
Hart has published five critically acclaimed monographs and his most recent work FRAGILE (2024) was nominated for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2025.
Paul Hart is represented in the USA by the Etherton Gallery and Joseph Bellows Gallery.