Jeremy Walker
Jeremy Walker’s debut book Landscape showcases the work produced during his long-term project to photograph ruined historic buildings around the UK. The book features 109 images, with commentary and background information on each one.
Self-published so that Jeremy could retain full creative control of the book, Landscape is a limited-edition printing, and is available to order via his website.
We sat down with Jeremy to find out more about the project and its scope, the inside story on how it came together, and what it takes to be a landscape photographer at the top of their game.
Was Landscape something you had wanted to do for a long time? And how long was it in preparation? I have always wanted to do a coffee table-style book, mostly for my own sense of worth and satisfaction; but it has always been a case of getting the right publisher interested, or getting the finances together to enable me to go and photograph it, and to see the project through. I had been shooting my own theme of ruins in a landscape setting for many years, with the idea of turning it into a book. It just took so much longer than I ever imagined it would to finally get every facet of what was a huge undertaking to come together.
“To shoot an image that is ‘acceptable’ and then move on is not what this project was about”
Shooting the images was the time-consuming element: nearly all the
