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Fay Godwin

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Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images.


— Fay Godwin


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But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living.


— Fay Godwin


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I don't get wrapped up in technique and the like.


— Fay Godwin


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I had been working in colour for ten years or so and looked at digital and liked the possibilities it gave me.


— Fay Godwin


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I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.


— Fay Godwin


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I have always been a very keen walker, though, and I often took a camera with me on my walks.


— Fay Godwin


#been #camera #i #keen #me

I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits.


— Fay Godwin


#i #interested #literary #loved #many

I like photographs which leave something to the imagination.


— Fay Godwin


#imagination #leave #like #photographs #something

I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.


— Fay Godwin


#i #me #medium #particular #people

I've been working with the land for most of my life; walking it and photographing it. And I love it to bits.


— Fay Godwin


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About Fay Godwin






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Fay Godwin (17 February 1931 – 27 May 2005) was a British photographer known for her black-and-white landscapes of the British countryside and coast. [that] gives an oddly desolate account of Britain as if reporting on a long abandoned country. Godwin was less active in her final years; in a December 2004 interview for Practical Photography Fay Godwin blamed "the NHS.

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