Last Tuesday evening when Thomas Peck finished talking one of the Society’s member’s asked if we could all turn our microphones back on. This request was met with spontaneous applause that rang out across all our screens as we all thanked Thomas for such a great evening.

Thomas’ presentation talked about the influences of landscape painters and how their work now affects Landscape photography. The Photographic Sublime - how artistic traditions of the Sublime influence photography of the past, present, and future…

Thomas Peck showed us how the traditions of the Sublime influenced early landscape photographers through to the modern day. With examples from painters like Turner & Caspar David Friedrich and photographs from Carleton E Watkins to M Kenna to S Salgado to A Adams to H Sugimoto, plus some of his own outstanding pictures.

It was a fascinating insight into a cultural trend which will provoke some debate, especially when we look into the future at how photography and the Sublime might interact in the 21st century.

Thank you Thomas for such an inspiring talk and we hope to see you in person at Norwich in the not to distant future.

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