Richard Simpson

My work was first published while I was at school, and exhibited at university. Over the years my photography has been internationally exhibited and collected, and widely published. (You'll find some of my early work in the 'Hound Trailing' gallery.)

For most of my life I've made my living as a writer and filmmaker, first as a national newspaper features writer, and later as a writer of crime fiction and thrillers, as J J Salkeld. I've also made a few documentary films, mainly for Channel4 and the BBC.

In the early part of my career my work was made in the established social documentary style, but in recent years it has become more allusive and psychogeographic in intention. That's particularly been the case since my initial diagnosis in 2017. I've been surprised by the directions in which my work has moved. For instance my pictures of delivery riders are potentially problematic ethically, but they do illuminate some uncomfortable truths about our society.

I've also been very influenced by visual art beyond photography, invariably in the modernist tradition, from cubism and modernism to abstract expressionism and site specific art.

Alternative titles for this collection included: Is that horse dead?, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Distant Relations, My Life in the Bush of Goats, Is That Horse Dead? - see Miles Jupp for details of that one  - and many more.

But SHADOWLAND it is.