Photographer: Nicholas Hughes

Ninja April 23rd, 2008

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I love the sense of peace and calmness I get from Nicholas Hughes’s photos of the British coastline, Switzerland and Germany.

Immensity is within ourselves. It is attached to a sort of expansion of being that life curbs and caution arrests, but starts again when we are alone.

–Nicholas Hughes

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This one reminds me of a Rothko painting.

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  • Ninja
    @ Stay-C, Fargo, eh? I wish I could wander into his photos and hide for a bit.

    @ Chris, welcome back to NvP! Happy to provide a bit of inspiration for you & a new bookmark to add.

    @ Spindeck, Ah, painterly, yes! But the broad expanse of color also makes me think of Rothko. Like Hughes, Rothko's work is also much better in person. I find myself looking for (and enjoying) the bits of underpainting peeking through his layers.
  • Spindeck
    I am enjoying looking at your presentation of photographer Nicholas Hughes' series having written my BA dissertation on his work, particularly focusing on 'the Edge' (snowscapes) series.

    I like the minimal and contemplative aspect within his work. His photographs are done in an almost painterly manner, which thereby are reminiscent of work such as Rothko's abstract paintings but also theoretically engage in post-modern aspects of Romanticism.

    Good work - even better in original!
  • chris
    Wow, back on form! New bookmark, thanks.
    Some of them remind me of Patricia Macdonald's aerial photographs; the colour and composition and perspective. (They don't look like them though.) Very nice!
  • stayc
    The first one gives me a Fargo feeling. I like the last one too, eerie yet inviting.
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