Richard Skoonberg

'The Flooded Forest' - Black and White - Landscape Photography - Eliot Porter

2020

'Black Top Ahead' is a black and white landscape photograph. This print is edition 1 of 20. This listing is for a framed print measuring 14 by 35 inches. Chris Little is inspired by the work of Ernest Hass, Jay Maisel...

'Burned Forest' is a black and white landscape photograph. This print is edition 1 of 20. This listing is for an unframed print - a framed print is also available. Chris Little is inspired by the work of Ernest Hass, Jay Maisel...

'Into the Beyond' Limited edition archival photograph. Unframed, hand signed and numbered _________________ Painted pools of light dance across the richly layered mountainscape of t...

A stand of spinous silver birch gather, shining white against the inky night... Over a three-year period, Goodall has visited areas of British forest and moorland to make images that he refers to as being 'more akin to fairytale than documentary'. There is indeed an unreal quality to the images, and this is perhaps a result of using artificial lighting; it reminds one of those spooky, unnaturally lit forests we see in the movies. In the absence of any natural illumination (save for a few that include the moon), scenes are lit as if they are in a studio setting. This results in imagery that feels eerily unfamiliar; transporting the viewer from the recognisable landscape into a kind of liminal netherworld - it's the landscape, but not as we are used to seeing it. Goodall responds to this observation by speaking about the possibility of the darkness being seen as a metaphor for the unconscious mind; the 'light' of consciousness illuminates the known forms of tree and rock, but beyond these certainties lies the unknown. When your eyes have little information, your imagination takes over and fills in the gaps." - Jasper Goodall...