David Burnett

Technology has delivered more and more powerful lenses and cameras over the years, and In-Your-Face imagery has become commonplace — yet in looking back over three decades of work, I find there is something to be said for backing up, for loosening the edges of the frame, for showing the context in which a subject appears. Life doesn't merely exist inside the tight frame. And physical distance isn't the only measure of proximity. Close is about a feeling, an understanding between subject and photographer. How close is Too Close? How close is Too Far? It remains the photographer's choice. Each picture has its own structure, its own moment, its own limits. Letting a subject dwell in the visual world around it is another way of being close.

Exhibition curated by Robert Pledge