{"id":616,"date":"2024-02-07T12:39:55","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T12:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studio55.org.uk\/currallphoto\/?page_id=616"},"modified":"2026-03-10T14:10:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T14:10:32","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/studio55.org.uk\/currallphoto\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"about"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--10);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--10)\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/studio55.org.uk\/currallphoto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/DSCF1466FB.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-700\" style=\"width:629px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/studio55.org.uk\/currallphoto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/DSCF1466FB.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/studio55.org.uk\/currallphoto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/DSCF1466FB.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/studio55.org.uk\/currallphoto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/DSCF1466FB.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/studio55.org.uk\/currallphoto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/DSCF1466FB.jpg?resize=1536%2C1151&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/studio55.org.uk\/currallphoto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/DSCF1466FB.jpg?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since the summer of 2005, for longer than any other period of my life, my home has been a tiny village, high in the Southern Uplands of Dumfries &amp; Galloway. The distinctive characteristics of this environment have been important in shaping my identity and, subsequently developing my practice as an artist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since settling here, I have been photographing the landscape of this immediate area with varying degrees of intent. In the summer of 2022 I decided to start taking this process a little more seriously. I invested in the cameras, lenses and, most importantly, the time required to learn how to represent a sense of what it means to be so connected to a landscape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is an archival resource, from which I intend to develop new work closely related to the major and longstanding themes in my practice; the construction of identity through knowledge and belief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><sup>September 2024<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the summer of 2005, for longer than any other period of my life, my home has been a tiny village, high in the Southern Uplands of Dumfries &amp; Galloway. The distinctive characteristics of this environment have been important in shaping my identity and, subsequently developing my practice as an artist. Since settling here, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-no-title","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_crdt_document":"","_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-616","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studio55.org.uk\/currallphoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studio55.org.uk\/currallphoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studio55.org.uk\/currallphoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studio55.org.uk\/currallphoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studio55.org.uk\/currallphoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/studio55.org.uk\/currallphoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2036,"href":"https:\/\/studio55.org.uk\/currallphoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/616\/revisions\/2036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studio55.org.uk\/currallphoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}