Robert Salisbury

I photograph landscapes, but I rarely see them as landscapes.

I am drawn to the things within them that can be reduced to something simpler – a line, a shape, a block of colour, a shadow, a reflection or a small isolated form surrounded by space.

I look for moments where the familiar becomes almost abstract, where the subject itself becomes less important than the relationships between shape, light, tone and space.

Much of my work comes from ordinary places and fleeting conditions: mist, snow, rain, changing weather, water and the quiet edges of the landscape. I am interested in what happens when these elements strip a scene back and leave only what feels essential.

I don’t set out to make traditional landscape photographs. I am more interested in finding abstraction within the landscape – and in making photographs that reflect the way I naturally see.