TRUNCATED
2005 - 2008
“A culture is no better than its trees.”
Portal
TRUNCATED is an intensive portrayal of an ageing pine forest plantation in Derbyshire (England) made over a three year period on repeated visits to the same forest. By exploring the natural spirituality of the place, which is largely unaffected by the modern world, Hart identifies a landscape where nature finds shelter and protection from its own elemental chaos. The series was made on large and medium format film cameras and the narrative is enhanced by Hart’s use of traditional darkroom printing techniques.
Long out of print, TRUNCATED was published by Dewi Lewis in 2009 with an essay by Gerry Badger. Hart has received a number of international awards for this work and the publication is held in important collections such as the V&A Museum Collection, TATE Library and the Martin Parr Foundation Library.
“Paul Hart’s images of single trees function like portraits, highlighting character and nuanced individualities - with one important difference. Trees do not react like people when a camera is pointed at them. Tree ‘portraits’ depend solely on the sensibility of the photographer… His rich, dark prints capture the Stygian gloom of the dense pine forest perfectly, where trees are so close together that little light reaches their inner depths”
EXHIBITION PRINTS
TRUNCATED comprises 37 pictures available in limited editions :
Silver gelatin prints
Image sizes up to : 16 x 20 in / 40.6 x 50.8 cm
Large-scale fibre based baryta prints :
40 x 50 in / 102 x 127 cm
Printed by Paul Hart
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Looking At Trees | Sophie Howarth (Hoxton Mini Press) 2023
Into The Woods | Martin Barnes (Thames & Hudson/ V&A) 2019
Looking at Images | Brooks Jensen (Lenswork Publishing) 2014
Monograph
TRUNCATED | Dewi Lewis Publishing
First published 2008 | Out of Print
Essay : Meetings with Unremarkable Trees by Gerry Badger