TREVOR ASHBY PHOTOGRAPHS

Personal Statement

Having trained as a painter, I travelled overland to India forty years ago without a camera. During the two years I stayed there, I became increasingly aware that I was constantly framing images in my mind. On my return to England I bought an old SLR camera and there started a lifetime’s passion for photography and the photographic image.

Over the years, I have been influenced by changing situations and opportunities, as well as by the availability of different equipment and materials. Initially, an interest in surrealism, and lunchtimes spent in central Oxford, took me to the street, recording bizarre coincidences and the ambiguous interrelationships between people and their surroundings in an urban setting. Later, a fascination with old, medium format and plate cameras has led me to work increasingly within the context of rural and coastal landscape, and on still life.

Most recently, I have spent 14 months photographing at the Eden Project in Cornwall, recording the pattern and structure of the plant forms there. Many of my subjects are fallen leaves and blossoms which lie unnoticed by visitors to the biomes.

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