Chris Tuff Artist Statement

"A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed." Ansel Adams

I have experimented with a range of techniques from long exposures, to combining and fusing multiple exposures and shots to create and capture a sense of the power and movement of the sea; and a range of manipulated ‘inverted’ images, an homage to the beauty of the ‘negative’, something that has been lost in digital photography.

As Paul Caponigro says “For a photograph to be anything other than purely a record of a scene it must reveal or expose something about the subject, evoke a feeling or capture a moment that tells a story.”

For me landscape photography is about just that, revealing, evoking the spirit, or capturing the evanescent mood and moment of a place - its power, drama, beauty or serenity, whatever I happen to feel about it at that instant.

My images are a visceral reaction to the landscape, the result of sensory immersion in the interaction of sea, sky and shore. It is the engagement of all the senses that influences how I interpret the landscape and express it visually.

"A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed." Ansel Adams

Much of my black & white work is inspired by the dark, tempestuous, beauty and drama of the Cornish coast where the sea sculpts the far-western fringes of our island shores.

"A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed." Ansel Adams

I have also experimented with a range of techniques from long exposures, to combining and fusing multiple exposures and shots to create and capture a sense of the power and movement of the sea; and a range of manipulated ‘inverted’ images, an homage to the beauty of the ‘negative’, something that has been lost in digital photography.