Light Sensitive and Landscape of Towers

This evening our presentation was from a comparatively new member of NDPS

Clive Dunn. Clive is an award-winning photographer from Norwich, specialising in creatively processed digital imagery for publishing, multi-media applications or as stand-alone fine art.

He began his working life as a Cartographic Draughtsman for the Ordnance Survey, which gave him the foundation for an enduring passion for topography and landscape. He then trained as a photographer before moving into television production, spending many years as a documentary filmmaker.

Clive's photography explores remote and under-visited areas of our countryside; forgotten, rarely trodden landscapes off-the-beaten track and beyond the obvious. He seeks out ruined dwellings and half-buried remains decayed with the passage of history while still retaining a magical atmosphere and an air of secrecy or mystery. His work also encompasses many techniques and abstract textures, shapes, and light dances. By adding distressed overlays and scratches, Clive attempts to achieve painterly digital impressions that awaken remnants of memory or fleeting glimpses of past experiences.

Clive devoted the first half of his presentation to his photographic journey and explained his love for black and white mono images which sprang from his early training in a wet darkroom and leading to an almost urbex existence seeking subject matter. All this leading, via an appreciation of the work of other photographers, such as Fay Godwin and Raymond Moore, to a book and a film about redundant churches in Norfolk - Landscape of Towers.

It was this Landscape of Towers that brought Clive to the end of his presentation. He was received with enthusiasm by members who were quick in showing their appreciation. Our thanks to Clive for allowing us to peep into his atmospheric world of images and history.