For ten years Charlie Waite worked in theatre and television, before moving into Landscape photography. Today he is one of the most celebrated international landscape photographers. He runs the prestigious company Light and Land which offers landscape photography workshops all over the world and he created the Landscape Photographer of the Year Competition. In the catalogue to this exhibition he says that there is a universal response to beauty that is therapeutic and brings great joy. In the exhibition he says that he shares his personal response to those moments of beauty that he has discovered as he travelled around the world.
Waite's images are largely square format and, in my opinion, his work seems to be inspired by both Ansel Adams and Eliot Porter. The photographs are beautifully printed on what appears to be cotton rag paper. In many cases it was very difficult to tell whether it was a photograph or a watercolour painting.
I thoroughly enjoyed this exhibition; I could look at Charlie's images for ages. I found it inspiring that some could have been taken in the Lincolnshire Wolds and, in fact, I have several similar ones. Many of his images are very simple with all clutter removed and many are painterly. I was interested to see that there was even an ICM image.
Well worth the visit.
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