Behind the Photograph
Talk by Charlie Waite
Part of the Responding to Light photography events collection.
Saturday 14 October 2023, 2pm - 3.30pm
£8
Venue: Riverside Community Centre, Station Road, Bovey Tracey
Suitable for: Adults
World renowned landscape photographer Charlie Waite takes his audience on a colourful and enchanting journey behind the photograph.
Charlie Waite has been an advocate of ‘the photograph’ and the importance of engaging with the landscape through photography for over 35 years.
He has had a lifetime of experience talking to photography enthusiasts and has travelled the length and breadth of the UK, Europe and the USA. His passion for passing on his experience and knowledge and his engaging manner, warmth and lively anecdotes have resulted in loyal audiences across the globe who share his love of truly immersing themselves with the landscape through the lens.
Charlie proves through his own photography the magical creative endeavour of his relationship with the natural world and how this transcends into a permanent record of beauty and the utmost respect for the world around him. His photographs are said to convey a quality of spirituality and calm and have an almost painterly quality.
“Photography is a production”. From his roots as an actor, Charlie became fascinated with theatrical lighting and design. Starting out his photography endeavours taking images of fellow actors for their portfolio, he transferred his attentions to landscape photography after a chance meeting with a publisher and frequent ramblings through the countryside here in the UK and in France.
Since then, Charlie has visited numerous countries across all continents, discovered the most wonderful locations and captured the very essence of all that is special and unique about a place.
Charlie conducts his lectures with passion, humour and grace, and takes the audience on a colourful and enchanting journey. Highly illustrated, his lectures are enjoyable, uplifting and memorable with many people finding inspiration to explore the natural world further embarking on their own personal journey with or without a camera.
This event is part of a programme of talks and workshops around the exhibition Responding to Light: the diversity of modern photography, at MAKE Southwest, 16 September - 4 November 2023.
The exhibition will showcase some of the huge range of techniques, subjects, and skills associated with contemporary British photography, including digital and analogue technologies, in large and small scales, 2D and 3D forms.
There is an extensive programme of events around this exhibition, including talks and masterclasses with most of the exhibitors. Please see our other events.
Please note, we have a specific cancellation policy for all events associated with this exhibition due to the distances speakers will be travelling. View cancellation policy HERE.