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I regularly read and enjoy Paul Harris's column in Outdoor Photography each month. I notice that he currently has an exhibition in the Joe Cornish Gallery in Northallerton entitled Mother, Sister, Daughter.... The exhibition is in praise of women the world over and collates images based on 21 years of visiting remote, ethnic and tribal communities across the globe. Time and again Harris has found that woment have played a pivotal role in the organisation, success and enjoyment of his far-flung photographic trips and this timely exhibition, which coincides with the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day, is a touching tribute to all the mothers, sisters and daughters out there.
Brought up in the tradition of Photojournalism, he continues his passion for story telling through his travel, adventure and documentary imagery, balancing the road less travelled with curiousity.
This evening I had a conversation with a neighbour and friend who has a passion for trees and we were discussing the disappearance of, in particular, local, indiginous apple breeds and the conversation broadened to the disappearance of ethnic cultures and the 'reduction in size' of the world. I feel that photographers such as Paul speak up for many of these small ethnic communities throughout the world and remind us that they are too valuable to be lost.
I love the whole travel and story telling aspect of Paul's work which, at the same time, contains wonderful portraits, architectural images and photographs of people interactining with the places he visits.