This Craft

He photographs reeds etched onto a frozen fen

trees floating on mist.

He searches for shadows and reflections

expanses of missing

what's unremembered.

In 1895 the photographer P.H. Emerson produced a last body of work, a collection of East Anglian marsh landscapes. Photographs of fugitive qualities of mist and light in a place that blurs distinctions between land and water, the images often seem themselves to be on the point of dissolving.

Drawing on Emerson's writings on optics and photogra...