Fay Godwin is remembered as one of the great British landscape photographers and in late-august 1992, I did a workshop with her at Duckspool in Somerset, U.K. I do not remember much about the workshop but when I asked if I could photograph her at one point, she said that was alright but I would not have the copyright in case I wanted to use it; a valid point.
She thought my photographs, mostly of dance, were interesting in that they did not follow the normal pattern of photographs from India of portraying the poor and destitute.
One of the two books she signed for me was Forbidden Land, a book full of her beautiful photographs, that was an impassioned plea for the countryside in particular the land that has been misappropriated by landowners who block lawful public access.
The other book, Land, is full of wonderful landscape photographs by Fay with introductory text by the author John Fowles.
The text by John Fowles is interesting because he challenges the whole notion of the photographic image.
She thought my photographs, mostly of dance, were interesting in that they did not follow the normal pattern of photographs from India of portraying the poor and destitute.
One of the two books she signed for me was Forbidden Land, a book full of her beautiful photographs, that was an impassioned plea for the countryside in particular the land that has been misappropriated by landowners who block lawful public access.
The other book, Land, is full of wonderful landscape photographs by Fay with introductory text by the author John Fowles.
The text by John Fowles is interesting because he challenges the whole notion of the photographic image.
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