Dark light has been a chance to balance the previous work in 24 hour daylight that became "New Light".  I have been progressively unraveling the meaning of my photographs.  It is not only a journey in landscape - it has become, for me, a journey into soul.  The light side - misty and surreal, and the dark side - sometimes vast and cold, at others magical and peaceful. Both sides complement each other - there is to be no light without darkness, no darkness without light.

In my MA course, I have been inspired by the photographs from Iceland to find that "soul space" in ordinary daily life.  Seeking stillness beneath the mad maelstrom of our 21st century world.

Tamany Baker 2006

Tamany Baker has been working as a photographer for twenty years.  She has exhibited her work widely, most recently in a Photodebut group show in the Glasshouse gallery, London.

She has traveled and photographed extensively in Russia and the former republics, South America, USA, India, Tibet, Morocco, Europe and China. In recent years, she has explored her family history in Russia and the Baltics. Her great grandfather was a portrait photographer from Byelorussia, who counted the last Czar as one of his sitters. He moved to England with his business at the beginning of the last century.

Between 1996 and 1998, she ran a photographer’s collective in Bristol called Photographers Above the Rainbow, numbering Martin Parr as one of its members. 

She enjoys producing large scale work, focusing on subjects, which convey subtle aspects of nature and humanity, including night and dusk photography

Education:

2005 - present    MA in documentary photography at Newport School of Art
1991 – 95             Part time BA degree in Photographic Studies at Newport School of Art
1985 – 88             BSc degree in Psychology at the University of Bristol