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- ISSN: 2042-8022
- E-ISSN: 2042-8030
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The spirit of place: Murmurs along the ancient ways
- Source: Book 2.0, Volume 13, Issue 1, Jul 2023, p. 27 - 37
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- 25 Jan 2023
- 02 Feb 2023
- 14 Aug 2023
Abstract
Andrew Rafferty’s photography has frequently been described as ‘beautiful’, but his work can also be radical and challenging. He finds particular inspiration working with writers and especially poets, but the notion that the images are simply there to illustrate the text is anathema to him. In his latest collaboration with poet Kevin Crossley-Holland, he uses movement as a metaphor to convey the emotions of the landscape – to capture impressions, drawing on the essence of the poetry, but without producing anything strictly representational, and create images, which although rooted in the landscape, are more abstract, more expressionistic. In his view neither poetry nor images should attempt to describe the other, but there should be a close coexistence between the two. As the reader moves back and forward between text and image and image and text, there comes a deeper understanding of ideas within the mind of the poet and the mind of the artist that may not have been made explicit, but are nonetheless there.
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