Fran Halsall's Professional Portfolio

United Kingdom

My photography is an exploration of the way light interacts with landscape; how its variable quality and intensity define the atmosphere of an image, altering our perception of the world as it changes. I prefer to work around the hours of sunrise and sunset, where light’s colour temperature transforms all that it touches. Or I search for the elusive and dynamic illumination associated with storms; I am never happier than when poised, tense with anticipation, waiting for clouds to part and for sunshine to once again flood across the landscape. My work brings both frustration and exhilaration. Alternating between meditative awareness and frenzied periods of hyperactivity as the light resolves itself into fleeting perfection; then dissolving back into long spells of waiting, observation, making notes and keeping my fingers crossed…

I aim to create memorable photographs that reveal important aspects of the environment, merging my twin passions for art and landscape conservation. Concentrating on the relationship between geology and vegetation, noting natural patterns on both the small and large scale, recording time’s effect on landscape through landform erosion to cyclical rhythms such as seasonal change. Focussing in on the impact of early agriculture, the first settlements and development of ritual sites, through to modern land use, abuse and conservation. Attracted by the power of a place, I will visit a site time and time again, looking for new perspectives on well-explored geography.

The health of the global environment, and our relationship with it, informs my work. Through my involvement in projects with environmental organisations, historians and archaeologists, I have bettered my understanding of the human effects on landscape, complementing my long-held interests in geology, ecology and ancient monuments. Knowledge feeds my aesthetic appreciation of the natural world and allows me to convey its processes more accurately.

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