Places rich with a sense of there are what Harry’s photography is about. It comes down, essentially, to a new understanding of what is meant by the word ‘place’. A place is not just a location. Nor is it an idea or an image. It is intensely concrete, the opposite of anything virtual, something that is thick with its own reality. And, more than that, a place is somewhere with a quality that you might call ‘inner connectedness’. That is a subtle but powerful thing, which is related to a kind of self-sufficiency, a feeling in a place that its life is not borrowed or imposed from elsewhere, but is coming up out of its own soil. It is a rooted and so an organic feeling. It is by definition idiosyncratic, pursuing its own way of doing things, perhaps a little quirkily, not at first entirely easy to understand, but undeniably itself.

Adam Nicolson. Foreword Journey Through the British Isles

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