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The introduction to photographer Paul Hart’s latest book, Fragile, features a poem by American poet Helene Johnson (1906-1995). Titled Trees at Night, it includes descriptions such as ‘lacy arms’, ‘stilly sleeping lake’, ‘torn webs of shadows’ and ‘trembling beauty’. As you leaf through the 51 richly detailed black & white plates in the publication, these words – and more – echo time and time again. The images are imbued with an all-encompassing sense of stillness, as seen in the pin-sharp reflections of trees in water, the electricity pylons that dissolve into the mist-engulfed distance, and the vanishing points of reed-flanked trenches and footpaths through fields.
Fragile is Hart’s fifth monograph, and follows his Fenland Trilogy, which was made up of Farmed, Drained and Reclaimed. All three are studies of the Fens, the region covering Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire and parts of Norfolk and Suffolk that is characterised by flatness, farming and fertile land. Fragile takes a step sideways from these, and while it still features the big skies, solitary trees and distant horizons that those familiar with Hart’s work will recognise, it also takes a more intimate, detailed look at his surroundings. ‘I think it was a bit Covid influenced,’ Hart explains. ‘I’d had that time away from everything, like everyone had, and I found myself slowing down. It came out of that. It’s more personal, more emotional and more subjective. The books on the Fens had one foot in the documentary camp, but this is far less so.’
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