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- Alessandro Raho
- Benedict Redgrove
- Vic Reeves
- Jamie Reid
- Marc Riboud
- Gill Rocca
- George Rodger
- Georges Rousse
- Stefan Ruiz
- Melanie Russell
- Jenny Saville
- Kenny Scharf
- Andreas Schmidt
- Clare Shilland
- Jeanloup Sieff
- Henrik Simonsen
- John Simpson
- Paul Smith
- Seton Smith
- Toby Smith
- Steven Spencer
- Paul St George
- Mark Steinmetz
- Daniel Stier
- Olly & Suzi
- Simon Taylor
- Andy Taylor Smith
- Joël Tettamanti
- Ed Thompson
- Topsafe
- James Turrell
- Jonathan de Villiers
- Stephen Walter
- Vanessa Warren
- Boyd Webb
- James Welling
- Ian Wilkinson
- Marc Wilson
- Tim Wood
- David Woolfall
- George Wright
- Susie Wright
- Simon Yewdall
Artist Profile
George Wright
These portraits of English oak trees were inspired by the photographs of the Endurance, taken by the Australian photographer Frank Hurley during the Shackleton Antarctic expedition, and by O. Winston Link’s night photographs of the last steam locomotives in America.
Once the composition has been established, sticks are positioned to mark the extremities of the frame. At dusk, and on a still, moonless night at the moment when the tree appears as a black silhouette against the evening sky, the shutter is opened. Between twenty and thirty bursts of a very powerful portable flash are directed at different parts of the…
