I do not want this blog to become an online diary, a sort of, Home Truths confessional. It is meant to be a place for my photographs to be seen together with the occasional, brief, contextual comment.
Disliking the constraints of sponsorship, I am a fiercely independent photographer in the documentary/reportage style, adding the occasional whimsical and pictorial image just for good measure.
The main body of my later work is about a 'sense of place', documenting events in and around where I live and along a valley, exploited for its mineral wealth, for hundreds, and probably, thousands of years.
This work is not meant to be definitive, it is my very personal relationship with a landscape, in which I spent my adolescence and where, with occasional bursts of enthusiasm, I have wandered with my camera for the past two decades.
There have been many changes to the area, not all sympathetic, traditional industries have declined and the demands of a growing local population have put serious pressure on both rare habitats and important industrial archaeology.
The environment may be unique but the story of this place will be familiar to many.
Peter Dewhurst
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