Tessa Sinclair
Since publishing her photobook, ‘A Restless Land’ last year, Tessa has been furthering her work looking for that quality in a ‘place’ which impacts so strongly on us emotionally. Her latest project ‘Breathe’ will be exhibited in Suffolk in October.
Tessa’s Landscape work is inspired by the discovery of the therapeutic effect that certain places have on us and the way we feel. This project was an enquiry into what quality of the landscape it is that elicits that effect on us emotionally and psychologically. The images explore a ‘place’ in an immersive way. The viewpoint from which the images are seen draws the viewer in with highly defined details in the foreground and an almost portrait like treatment of natural features. Many of her images allow the viewer to linger within the space more than presenting a classical vista. Others confine the viewer creating a sense of unease, but it is by staying with that unease that a sense of calm is created. It is this realisation, that it is not just the beauty or the quietness of nature that touches us but the embracing of the feeling of uncertainty that makes way for a sense of equilibrium of our inner landscape.
This project is a refinement on a piece she did for her MA Photography at Westminster and is revisiting landscape with a different perspective.
Locations: United Kingdom
Categories: Documentary, Fine Art, Landscape, Nature, Photographer, Travel