Paul Hart

British photographer Paul Hart has photographed the natural world for over thirty five years. He is interested in our relationship with the landscape from both a cultural and an environmental perspective and is recognised for his long-term landscape projects which usually culminate in the publication of a monograph. His work examines human-altered topography and our occupation and stewardship of the land, often concentrating on one specific geographical region where he photographs intensively over a number of years.

Hart works solely with the black and white analogue process, using medium format film cameras, and his practice involves all aspects of the photographic process. He is known as a leading printmaker and his work resides in major public and private collections, including the Victoria & Albert Museum, the MoMA Library, the Hyman Collection and the Martin Parr Foundation.

Recent solo exhibitions include ; Truncated (Harley Foundation Museum, UK), Paul Hart : The Fens (Etherton Gallery, USA) and notable group exhibitions ; the 2024 Summer Exhibition (Royal Academy of Art, UK) and Landscape Trauma (Centre for British Photography, UK).

Hart is recipient of a number of international awards and nominations; in 2019 was awarded the inaugural Wolf Suschitzky Photography Prize (Austria) and in 2025 received nominations for the John Ruskin Prize (UK) and the Deutsche Börse Foundation Photography Prize (UK). His work has featured in numerous publications including The Daily Telegraph, National Geographic, Aesthetica and BBC News. He supports a number of environmental charities and regularly collaborates with the environmental non-profit organisation VITAL IMPACTS.

Hart has authored and designed five monographs. His first book TRUNCATED (Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2009) is long out of print. In 2020 he concluded the Fenland Trilogy published as stand-alone monographs : FARMED, DRAINED and RECLAIMED (Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2016-20) with contributions by Steven Collier Brown (USA), Francis Hodgson (UK) and Isabelle Bonnet (France). The trilogy received international critical acclaim and the first two books have been reprinted.

His most recent series FRAGILE (2020-24) was published in May 2024 by Dewi Lewis.