Guy Dickinson’s landscapes operate in a register that is almost anti-picturesque. Refusing the monumental sweep or romanticised grandeur typical of the genre, his images instead dwell in the thresholds—places where form is suspended between presence and erasure, where the subject resists full disclosure. The work seems less concerned with “capturing” a view than with enacting a sustained act of looking, one that destabilises the idea of the photograph as a fixed document.
There is a temporal elasticity at play: foregrounds bleed into distance, and moments seem to dilate until you can almost feel the shift in temperature, the slow turning of light, the air settling differently around you. In this sense, Dickinson’s practice recalls Merleau-Ponty’s assertion that perception is not the passive reception of the visible but an embodied negotiation with it — an encounter where the seer and the seen fold into one another.
Like Berger, Dickinson seems to understand that the photograph is never just a record of what stood before the lens; it is a proposition about how we might inhabit the world. His landscapes are not inert views but sites of reciprocity, where the viewer’s gaze completes the image. This reciprocity pushes the medium beyond representation toward a shared, ongoing act of seeing — slower, more porous, and quietly radical in its refusal to resolve.
The Elastic Gaze, M. P. Pearson
Articles / Interviews
On Landscape / Featured Photographer interview with Michela Griffith / issue 331
Len's Journal / selected works / volume 4 issue 3
Offline Journal / interview / issue 11
Black + White Photography / interview / Issue 275
Biblioscapes / interview / a dialogue
The United Nations of Photography / What photography means to me / a monologue
Echtrai Journal / Edition One / a poem, a cover, some interleaves
ITO Journal / Right to Roam / work from the series, Riparian Rights
Pleasure Garden / Issue Seven / Riverrun / a poem commissioned by John Tebbs
Inside the Outside / Towards a premise / a collaboration with David Foster
Centre for Alterity Studies / Alterity Five / On Consciousness / 14 poets, writers & artists
Inside the Outside / Out of the Woods of Thought
Centre for Alterity Studies / Alterity Two / Stations
Corbel Stone Press / Reliquiæ
The Dartmoor Collective / A review of Rifts & Erasures
Inside the Outside / Caput Mortuum with preface by Christopher John Thornhill
Thames Estuary Library / Saltsick
Inside the Outside / Stations with Alison Morris
Inside the Outside / Scar
On Landscape / Featured Photographer interview with Michela Griffith / issue 160
Webb Chiles / self-portrait in the present sea
Inside the Outside / Strainsear with Alison Morris
Some books feature on Biblioscapes
Exhibitions
Solo / postROOM / November 2026
Solo / postROOM / 2023 (8th February - 4th March)
Group / Lake Gallery / 2025
Group / Lake Gallery / 2024
Group / WCPF24 / 2024
Group / Bard / A shadow passes / 2022 / ongoing
Group / Argentea Gallery / Gather / 2019
Group / Patching’s Gallery / Connected 2019
Group / Argentea Gallery / Out of the Woods of Thought / 2018
Instagram
www.instagram.com/tracing_silence/
Print Sales
Southwark Park Gallery: https://shop.southwarkparkgalleries.org/search?q=dickinson
(2 works are available / Edition of 3 / Mounted on archival board and framed)
Postroom: https://www.postroom.online/sales
Bard: A shadow passes
On Landscape / Featured Photographer interview with Michela Griffith / issue 331
Len's Journal / selected works / volume 4 issue 3
Offline Journal / interview / issue 11
Black + White Photography / interview / Issue 275
Biblioscapes / interview / a dialogue
The United Nations of Photography / What photography means to me / a monologue
Echtrai Journal / Edition One / a poem, a cover, some interleaves
ITO Journal / Right to Roam / work from the series, Riparian Rights
Pleasure Garden / Issue Seven / Riverrun / a poem commissioned by John Tebbs
Inside the Outside / Towards a premise / a collaboration with David Foster
Centre for Alterity Studies / Alterity Five / On Consciousness / 14 poets, writers & artists
Inside the Outside / Out of the Woods of Thought
Centre for Alterity Studies / Alterity Two / Stations
Corbel Stone Press / Reliquiæ
The Dartmoor Collective / A review of Rifts & Erasures
Inside the Outside / Caput Mortuum with preface by Christopher John Thornhill
Thames Estuary Library / Saltsick
Inside the Outside / Stations with Alison Morris
Inside the Outside / Scar
On Landscape / Featured Photographer interview with Michela Griffith / issue 160
Webb Chiles / self-portrait in the present sea
Inside the Outside / Strainsear with Alison Morris
Some books feature on Biblioscapes
Exhibitions
Solo / postROOM / November 2026
Solo / postROOM / 2023 (8th February - 4th March)
Group / Lake Gallery / 2025
Group / Lake Gallery / 2024
Group / WCPF24 / 2024
Group / Bard / A shadow passes / 2022 / ongoing
Group / Argentea Gallery / Gather / 2019
Group / Patching’s Gallery / Connected 2019
Group / Argentea Gallery / Out of the Woods of Thought / 2018
www.instagram.com/tracing_silence/
Print Sales
Southwark Park Gallery: https://shop.southwarkparkgalleries.org/search?q=dickinson
(2 works are available / Edition of 3 / Mounted on archival board and framed)
Postroom: https://www.postroom.online/sales
Bard: A shadow passes
