My photographs are normally produced as limited editions and are always restricted to a total of thirty, irrespective of type of print or picture size. Why thirty, you may wonder. Why not ten, fifty or one hundred? Strictly speaking I would like to produce just one print of each photograph I create, in the way that a painter will produce only one original or each painting he or she creates. However, unlike a painter, we photographers do not have total control over the tools at our disposal. We paint with light. We apply light to film in the way a painter applies paint to canvas but, frustratingly, the light and landscape are, for most of the time, inaccessible. They tease and betray us. We pamper them; we watch and wait. We keep returning and returning until eventually we have everything right. On average I find that the landscape opens her door to us for just a miserly two or three percent of the time. I feel it appropriate, therefore, that precisely thirty original prints should be produced for each photograph. I think this evens things up a little.

Please also see The Print for information about the paper, authenticity certificate, framing and other notes.