Exhibiting Photography, 2nd Edition

CHAPTER 7

Approaching a Gallery

This project began as a commission from the European Garden Heritage Network (EGHN) that set out to reinterpret the idea of a public garden. Following the completion of the commission I carried on with the work in collaboration with Greer Crawley (a landscape architect and academic at Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, UK). This new work that we have developed is a representation and metaphor for surgical techniques within the manipulation of the landscape. It sets out to challenge traditional photographic approaches to gardens and has had a very positive response from curators. My starting point was ...