Joe Cornish

Joe Cornish

Joe Cornish is one of the UK's leading landscape photographers and photographic educators. His work has been exhibited widely, and he has two galleries devoted to his work near to his home in North Yorkshire. These are also the base of his card and calendar publishing company.

Leaving university with a fine art degree in 1980, Joe worked first as a photographer's assistant, In Washington DC, and in London before becoming a successful photographer for travel books. Having established himself as a National Trust photolibrary contributing photographer, he went on to specialise in landscape. Since 1998 he has shot almost exclusively on 5x4inch equipment.

His philosophy of landscape photography comes from a belief in advocacy for wild places, and that photography can help inspire respect and reconnection with landscape and the natural world. As an educator he has worked mainly for Light and Land and Inversnaid Photography workshops, as well as running his own one day workshop programme in North Yorkshire. Joe has had successful collaborative book projects with fellow landscape photographers, Charlie Waite and David Ward; he has worked extensively with designer/photographer and printer Eddie Ephraums, and lectures with wildlife specialist Andy Rouse.

He was featured in the 2005 book, The World's Top Photographers, Landscape; and in 2006 was honoured with the Amateur Photographer magazine's Power of Photography Award.