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Fay Godwin

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

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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."

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"My poems are only bits of scratchingon the floor of acage."

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"For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully, and these transcripts, though imperfect, become the songs of the nations."

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Fay Godwin
"It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that helped to inspire me."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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"After Land I wanted to continue exploring the theme but I needed a new challenge so turned to colour. I explored Bradford and produced a series of urban landscapes that I liked, but because Land had made such an impact on the general public my colour work wasn't reviewed."
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Fay Godwin
"And in fact I don't believe there is such a thing as a definitive picture of something. The land is a living, breathing thing and light changes its character every second of every day. That's why I love it so much."
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"I like photographs which leave something to the imagination."
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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."
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"Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training."
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"You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years."
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