LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY IS NOT ABOUT THE LAND – PHOTOGRAPHING IN THE PEAK | PAUL HILL

24 FEB 2024 | 7PM-9PM | VICTORIA HALL | £10

Half the population of Britain lives within one hour’s drive of the borders of the Peak District National Park. Tourism is the area’s biggest employer and reliant on the partial and persuasive use of photography to attract visitors, in order to maintain economic stability for the inhabitants of this mostly rural community. Whilst enjoying being amongst the hills and dales visitors indulge in the largest creative pastime in the world – photography. And they nearly always attempt to re-create or copy the images that persuaded them to visit the area in the first place. To do ‘something different’ is rarely a considered option. Why? asks Paul Hill MBE, FRPS, a photographer, author and teacher who lives in the Peak.

Saturday evening with a Licensed bar selling both alcoholic beverages and soft drinks.

PAUL HILL - photographer, journalist, author and teacher

After he worked as a newspaper reporter and climbing instructor, Paul became a freelance photographer in 1965. He photographed regularly for The Guardian and The Observer and became director of the Creative Photography course at Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham in 1976 - forerunner to all current student-centred higher education courses in the medium. Another notable achievement around this time was the establishment, with his wife, Angela, of The Photographers’ Place - the UK‘s first residential photography workshop - at their Peak District home.

He has written two books on photography –Approaching Photography and Dialogue with Photography and has had two monographs White Peak Dark Peak and Corridor of Uncertainty published. Exhibiting regularly since 1970 in the British Isles and internationally Paul was the first art photographer to receive an MBE for services to photography and the first professor of photographic practice in a British university.