FOTOGRAFI MAGAZINE | Edition 2 April 2024
Cover photograph / 14 page feature & interview by Kristin Skåmedal
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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC | 16 February 2024
Environment Feature | by Kit Chapman
“Bogs are rich in storied horror and the wetlands of western England are no exception.”
AESTHETICA MAGAZINE | 6 July 2023
Landscape Trauma | Centre for British Photography Exhibition Review
B+W PHOTOGRAPHY MAGAZINE #271 | November 2022
Front Cover feature : Portal from TRUNCATED
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Fenland Trilogy Article by Aileen Wessely
“The often gloomy mood is characterised above all by absence ; absence of humans and animals ... everything that this landscape has gone through boiled down to being able to use the fertile soil “
ARTDOC Photography Magazine | September 2021
RECLAIMED series feature : Documentary Stories
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In Pictures : The beauty of the Fens by Phil Coombes
“For the past decade, photographer Paul Hart has focused his attention on the Fens, capturing the often -overlooked beauty of the farmland, and the relationship with those who work it and those who just pass through.”
PHOTOBOOK JOURNAL | September 2020
RECLAIMED Reviewed by Douglas Stockdale
“It’s as though one has been given an opportunity to have a nice portfolio of lyrical photographs at a remarkable affordable price.”
B + W PHOTOGRAPHY MAGAZINE #241 | May 2020
RECLAIMED Feature by Elizabeth Roberts
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L’OEIL DE LA PHOTORAPHIE | April 2020
RECLAIMED Exhibition Feature
“This Spring sees the publication of RECLAIMED the final of a series of three extraordinary photographic books by artist photographer Paul Hart in collaboration with Dewi Lewis Publishing. In this series ; FARMED, DRAINED and now RECLAIMED, Hart explores one of the most productive yet haunting agricultural landscape in England : the Lincolnshire Fens”.
AESTHETICA MAGAZINE | September 2020
LAND LINES Exhibition Review by Eleanor Sutherland
Landscape Histories
“Hart’s images reveal hidden truths within an altered topography. The relationship between humanity and nature is brought into focus, as each meditative black-and-white image points towards narratives just beyond the surface”.
LAND LINES Exhibition Review by Tracy Calder
“Hart's skills as a master printer are clear - there is a luminosity to the water filled ditches and rain soaked roads that looks natural, and yet can only be the work of someone supremely confident in the darkroom”.
PHOTOBOOK JOURNAL | March 2019
DRAINED Book Review by Douglas Stockdale
“There is a sense of balance in Hart's elegant-captured vistas that also ellicit a slight undercurrent feeling of melancholy”.
ROYAL PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY JOURNAL | December 2018
Wolf Suschitzky Photo Prize Feature by Rachel Segal-Hamilton
“Hart's work shows the depth and significance in the everyday fabric of his native landscape”
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DRAINED Series Feature by Aline Smithson
“Paul Hart's beautiful analogue capture of moody and graphic landscapes are a tonic to the chaos in our lives.”
PHOTO LONDON | | May 2018
Homes & Antiques by Sarah Colegrave
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POETRY OF PLACE : Exhibition Feature by Alexander Strecker
“Among many other resonant lines in Walden, Thoreau wrote, "It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see". These words find fulfilment in the dedicated, delicate vision of Paul Hart. While other photographers dash to corners of the earth to "discover" something new, Hart has realised that the challenge of seeing is great enough on its own and can be realised by simply opening your door and taking a fresh look at the world which is waiting, right in front of you”.
LENSWORK #128 | February 2017
FARMED Feature by Brooks Jensen
“Turning his attention to landscapes under cultivation, Hart creates aesthetically pleasing and visually rewarding images in quiet classic style that remind one of the great FSA photographers of the late 1930s.”
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FARMED Feature by Simon Bowcock
“Classic, but neither modernist nor pictorial, FARMED evokes photographic history without over-relying on any of it. Sagely ambivalent, it looks simple and obvious, but is complicated and weighty. And it is - in it's own quiet way - extraordinarily beautiful. Can we ask any more of art than that?”
B + W MAGAZINE #191 | July 2016
FARMED feature : How the Land Lies by Elizabeth Roberts
“When Paul Hart set out to photograph the Fens his aim was not only to describe the physical place but to comment on man's effect on it. The work sits between documentary and landscape and slips seamlessly info fine art”.
The i-NEWSPAPER | 13 May 2016
FARMED Book Review by Sophie Batterbury
“Paul Hart's black and white photographs of trees in the mist, broken-down houses in the middle of acres of farmland and abandoned rusting caravans are as mysterious and hypnotically beautiful as the names of the places they record - Windy Corner, Caulton's Farm and Flood Cottage”.
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TRUNCATED : Spotlight by Richard Pitnick
“TRUNCATED is British photographer Paul Hart's exquisite meditation on the mystery and magical beauty of the forests of his native England... Beyond generating an aesthetic appreciation for the beauty of deep forests, Hart's work sounds an ecological warning on the importance of forest preservation worldwide”.
EYE OF PHOTOGRAPHY | 14 April 2022
Paul Hart : The Fens | ETHERTON GALLERY Solo Exhibition feature
AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHER MAGAZINE | 25th January 2022
‘An absolute lack of melodrama’ by Damien Demolder
Paul Hart talks about the Fenland series, his latest book RECLAIMED and his choice to work in analogue.
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BLIND MAGAZINE | December 2020
RECLAIMED series feature : Denatured Landscape by Isabelle Bonnet
“British artist Paul Hart photographed lands disfigured by outrageous productivity. Images that are both simple and symbolic”
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Landscape Stories Magazine | September 2020
#LS 301 : Archive
“Hart's interest lies in the the margins of landscape where modernity's un-easy often antagonistic relationship with the natural world is most strongly in conflict.” - Gianpaollo Arena
ALL ABOUT PHOTO | September 2020
EDGELANDS Exhibition Feature
A new exhibition of Paul Hart's compelling photographic work opens this Autumn in Cambridge (UK) to coincide with the release of his latest book RECLAIMED (Dewi Lewis Publishing)
L’OEIL DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE | October 2019
LAND LINES Exhibition Feature
LAND LINES features Hart’s acclaimed series DRAINED and FARMED (Dewi Lewis Publishing) and the work of two invited artists Mark Steinmetz (USA) and the late Fay Godwin (1931-2005, UK).
fLIP MAGAZINE #42 | Spring 2019
DRAINED Book Review by Tim Butcher
“DRAINED to my mind, is a book of landscape photography that has the ability to transport us to spaces recognisably marked by human endeavour but devoid of familiar everyday activity. The images depict a stark uncanniness. I would like to suggest that it is in viewing such intersections between the strange and the familiar that we begin to question the world around us - what has gone before us, what is to come, and thus our own sense of belonging in it all. Paul Hart offers us images that can situate us in such moments of critical contemplation. If, like me, you are dawn inward as well as outward through landscape photography, DRAINED is essential reading”.
L’OEIL DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE | February 2019
Wolf Suschitzky Photo Prize | feature by Katy Baron
“Hart's empty agricultural landscapes are a revelation - recording a part of England that is sparsely populated and rarely visited. There is a surprising majesty to the endless empty fields, framed by power lines and smothered in damp fog, and a specificity to each image. Hart's practice is not about 'being in the right place at the right time' but rather the result of scrutiny and dedication over many years”.
DON’T TAKE PICTURES | 15 November 2018
North Forty Foot Drain from DRAINED featured as PHOTO OF THE DAY
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B + W MAGAZINE #222 | November 2018
DRAINED Feature : The Flat Country by Francis Hodgson
“Paul Hart is a photographer interested in the slow harvesting of hidden truth from the ordinary places that most of us pass by... He seeks to find the bits of the land that speak their stories, and to transmit their importance in views which, typically, the absolute lack of melodrama demands slow looking and brings slow revelation. Hart’s placid, formally peaceful landscape is pregnant with stories that lurk in the mud or the mist. His magic lies in soliciting from his viewers the same half-historical, half romantic reaction to ploughed fields and straight drainage ditches as he gets from them himself”.
DAILY TELEGRAPH SATURDAY REVIEW | 03 February 2018
Viewfinder by Iona MacLaren
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FARMED Series Feature by Alexander Strecker
Masterfully shot and printed landscape photographs pose important questions about our relationship to the earth and silently ask us - 'what's next?'
ADOIRE NOIR MAGAZINE | February 2017
FARMED Interview & 15 image portfolio by Sandra Djak Kovacs
“FARMED by Paul Hart is a series of pastoral views where the serene landscape transports the viewer to a quieter time. The few abandoned buildings lead one to believe that the story may be ending for this stretch of land, however, on second glance, the proud trees, greenhouses and the building that is under repair, tell a different story, one of continuation, a cycle that may leave some things behind but is always regenerating”.
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PAPIERS #21 | March 2017
Apprenez à parler aux arbres! by Jacques Tassin
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Paul Harts’ Second Nature by Collier Brown
“The landscapes in Paul Hart's FARMED, are at one beautiful and beleaguered, full and empty, alive and dead. The disappearances between those conditions are the true subjects. On e feels their presence in every photograph”.
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH | 14 May 2016
Saturday Review : Postcards from a Parallel Universe by Anna Pavord
LENSWORK Extended #85 | October 2009
TRUNCATED : Thirty image portfolio & interview by Brooks Jensen
“How does a photographer approach something as universally photographed as trees and make an interesting and unique statement about them ? It’s difficult - it’s a challenge- it’s a creative pursuit... and one that Paul Hart has pulled off incredibly successfully”.
AG JOURNAL | Winter 2009
TRUNCATED A tale of two titles by Chris Dickie
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