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Harry Cory Wright
Renowned landscape photographer Harry Cory Wright travelled from one side of the country to the other, in a quest to find two pictures.

Harry, who is known for his dramatic two metre prints, featured in the Made in England programme for the East and West.

The programme saw Harry exploring the beaches and marshlands of North Norfolk, attempting to capture the very essence of the natural landscape in one telling final shot.

Followed by a camera crew, he drove across England to the heart of Bristol, where he discovered a very contrasting environment. There he had to find a second picture, capturing a very different mood.

Harry embarked on this journey as a real challenge to himself as a photographer. When he said yes to making the programme he had no idea if he was going to be able to take a picture in Bristol as exciting as the pictures he normally takes in Norfolk.

Harry, 44, who runs his own gallery, Saltwater, in Norfolk, and has published books including Journey Through the British Isles, uses an enormous 10x8 inch plate camera to take very bold, detailed, beautiful pictures.

Used to working in the windswept wilds of Norfolk, his trip to Bristol saw him discover not only a very different landscape but also a new interest in the inner-city environment and perhaps the beginning of a different direction to his work.

"The picture I took in Bristol is bold. I see a city in flux - a real moment in time. That's something I look for in all pictures I take and that is how I see England - a place of shifting times."

"The two pictures are a total contrast. However, the picture I took in Bristol has uncanny parallels with the Norfolk picture - the lines of movement in the pictures, the sheer quantity of things going on, the same pulses of life."

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