Joe Cornish

A working photographer since 1980, Joe Cornish is based in North Yorkshire and has devoted the last thirty years to landscape photography, especially in the north of England and Scotland. His work includes large scale commissions and publishing projects; and he has led countless workshops, tours, seminars and one-to-ones, as well as giving talks and writing.

His landscape photography seeks a sense of connection with the natural world through and exploration of texture, colour, space, form and light. He has specialised in high resolution equipment due to the immersive quality that comes from an abundance of fine detail. Joe is an avid thinker on the role of photography with a strong interest in the global environment, and he has written countless articles, many appearing in: https://www.onlandscape.co.uk/, which he helped co-found.

Joe is an honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, and was first Chair of the Landscape Distinctions panel. Recent books include: Scotland’s Mountains; Scotland’s Coast; The Northumberland Coast; This Land; Capability Brown; Humphry Repton; Woodland Sanctuary (with Simon Baxter); Still Time to Wonder (on Fountains Abbey).