Reclaimed by Paul Hart (Dewi Lewis Publishing, April 2020) Essay: Denatured Landscape by Isabelle Bonnet
We’re thrilled to be hosting the official UK book launch of artist-photographer Paul Hart’s photobook ‘Reclaimed’.
A pop-up exhibition of prints from all three series has been curated by Amanda Game.
Opening times:
Saturday 18th April 12 - 6pm
Sunday 19th April 10am - 5pm
Special event:
In Conversation with Paul Hart and Dewi Lewis
Saturday 18th April, 11am - 12pm
Tickets £5, book here
Hart’s most recent work RECLAIMED concludes his long-term project on The Fens (UK). The series will be published by Dewi Lewis in May, with a text by respected French curator and writer Isabelle Bonnet.
Walsingham Fen, 2019, from Reclaimed by Paul Hart
The first two parts of the project : FARMED (2009-2015) and DRAINED (2016-2017) have won a number of awards and received much critical acclaim.
In 2018 work from the series was awarded the inaugural Wolf Suschitzky Photo Prize (Austria/UK) and in 2019 shortlisted for the Hariban Award (Japan).
“ Paul Hart’s photography partakes in (this) new vision of the English landscape. His images incorporate the social, historical and political dimensions of the rural landscape – dimensions long ignored in one of the world’s most industrialised and urbanised countries. They materialise the dialectic of nature and culture, of the individual and the collective, of the real and the symbolic. A dialectic the photographer wholeheartedly embraces, as evidences his choice of a historically and politically emblematic subject: the Fens, these literally “denatured” marshlands converted into fertile and profitable fields over the centuries.” - Denatured Landscapes, Isabelle Bonnet
Dewi Lewis and Paul Hart
About Dewi Lewis Publishing
Founded in 1994, Dewi Lewis Publishing has published many leading British and international photographers such as Laia Abril, John Blakemore, Bruce Gilden, Paul Hart, Simon Norfolk, Martin Parr and Simon Roberts as well as books by lesser-known emerging photographers. It publishes up to 20 new titles each year.
Before establishing the imprint, Dewi Lewis was founding Director of Cornerhouse, a major Manchester-based Centre for Contemporary Visual Arts and Film, where in 1987 he established Cornerhouse Publications, a winner of the Sunday Times Small Publisher of the Year Award.
Many of the books published by Dewi Lewis have been shortlisted for international prizes and several have won awards. In 2014 the imprint received the PhotoEspana’s prize for Outstanding Publishing House of the Year and, in 2018, it won both Paris Photo / Aperture Foundation Photobook of The Year Award and Rencontres d’Arles Author Book Prize. Dewi has worked in close collaboration with several European publishers and was a founding member of The European Publishers Award for Photography, which ran from 1994 to 2016.
Dewi Lewis was appointed an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society in 2004 and in November 2009 he was awarded the inaugural Royal Photographic Society Award for Outstanding Services to Photography. He was awarded the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Publishing at the World Photography Awards in April 2012.