From stormy skies to lonely trees, Godwin’s stunning landscape photography went hand in hand with her environmental campaigning
Godwin’s approach was distinct from that of other contemporary landscape photographers – essentially descriptive, recording the specific and objective: the manmade landmark, the characteristic lines of a particular stretch of worked landWhile Godwin walked the land, her interrogation of those people who made their living it and her challenges to those who despoiled it or owned and controlled an unfair proportion of it, informed and amplified her practice.
This photograph, from Our Forbidden Land, sums up perfectly the essential absurdity – and injustice – of trying to ban people from the hills’Ian Jeffrey: ‘Boardale is a plain valley, with few habitations, to the south-east of Ullswater. You’d be hard-pressed to put your finger on the site. Fay will have seen it when she was out walking. The valley runs from high ground in the south-west to Martindale in the north-west, and she may have been going that way on a winter’s morning in clear sunshine.
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