Photographer Harry Cory Wright explores and celebrates the beauty of the British landscape. In order to capture the variety of natural sceneries that make up the British Isles with a large-format camera, he followed the steps of writers such as Celia Fiennes and Daniel Defoe around the UK for the 2006 project Journey Through the British Isles. Beginning in the frozen splendour of the Shetland Islands, he travelled down through mainland Scotland to England and Wales, before gradually heading north again to reach the Isle of Skye. Each photograph documenting Cory Wright’s remarkable journey is infused with the unique spirit of its location. Journey Through the British Isles reveals the magnificence and diversity of the countryside, and challenges our perception of modern Britain as a once-beautiful land largely ruined by creeping urbanization.

In his most recent work, Cory Wright applies his method to urban spaces: towns, parks and interiors. In West. Stokes Croft, Bristol (2008), the photographer puts Bristol’s cityscape under scrutiny. Yet far from the “realism” championed by many photographers, Cory Wright claims – as in his previous landscapes – a real sense of belonging to the place where one lives. “It is of great importance to me,” he says “to pursue a vision of the British Isles, which is neither sentimental nor elusive, but rich, real and available to all.”

Harry Cory Wright was born in 1963. He lives in north Norfolk.