Chris Routledge

Chris Routledge is a photographer and writer based in the Northwest.

I am primarily a landscape photographer with an interest in changing landscapes, including urban landscapes, their history, and the human influences on them.

I tend to think about series over long timescales rather than individual pieces of work. In ‘Looking Backward’ I am photographing historic Liverpool buildings and street scenes with my back to them, using reflections to explore the relationship between past and present. This Liverpool work was exhibited in Hungary in 2023 as part of the European Capital of Culture programme in the Veszprém-Balaton region.

My first solo exhibition, ‘Indeterminate Land’ (Heaton Cooper Studio Gallery, Grasmere, 2019) explored the effects of 2015’s Storm Desmond on the landscape of the nearby Rothay river valley, and ‘Say Goodbye to the Larches’ (dot-art, 2022) is a series of augmented cyanotype prints reflecting on the loss of larch trees to disease. I am currently working on a series of small cyanotype prints of historic ports and harbours on the Cumbrian coast, and on ‘Portraits of the Forest’ a long term project exploring forestry and conservation through portraits of trees and the people who work with them.

Read more about Chris Routledge’s work here