The contentious question of ‘meaning’ in landscape photography. Is there any, and should there be? Are we mere observers, or propagandists?

(As well as access to the live event, you will receive a link to the recording, valid for 28 days)

Understand Joe’s thought-provoking exploration of whether landscape photography carries genuine meaning in today’s world.

Can images truly serve society in an age of environmental fragility, sustainability and uncertainty?

Discover the historical battle for relevance encountered by landscape painters over two hundred years, and its modern parallels.

See illustrations from Joe’s own work alongside influential artists from other genres that have shaped his photographic philosophy.

Joe Cornish is a North Yorkshire-based landscape working photographer for well over forty years, he has travelled widely but now focuses mainly on the landscape near his home in the north of England, and Scotland.

An honorary Fellow of the RPS, he helped form (and was first Chair) of the Landscape Distinctions panel.

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).