Welcome to Richard Garrod Photo. Please look around and explore the beautiful black and white, traditional silver images of Richard Garrod. The blog section will eventually highlight all 119 photographs that were published in his two major books, Visual Prayers and Visual Metaphors. Each image will be accompanied by an audio track of Richard talking about that particular image. The tracks give a wonderful insight into the mechanics of how the image was captured, as well as the creative process that went into deciding what to photograph.
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Tioga Lake, Yosemite, 1989
This quiet image on page 11 of Visual Prayers can be easily glossed over since it’s not immediately obvious what it is. Once you realize that because of the title, it must be water and for water to look like that, it must be ice, then it sets your mind up to look a bit …
Logs and Sand, Oregon, 1976
On page 8 of Visual Prayers, we find this image from the Oregon coast. This is a good example of how Richard is able to extract beauty from visual chaos. The page faces the beginning of an article about Richard’s work and influences by Mary Murray, curator at the Monterey Museum of Art. To quote …
Leaves and Log, Coos Bay, Oregon, 1976
This image is on page 7 of Visual Prayers and is opposite a poem by Minor White. The poem makes mention of photographs being prayers, and is the inspiration for the title of Richard’s first book. Listen to Richard talk about this image from Oregon: Click the far left of the black bar to play …