The photographs of Richard Denyer, who has died aged 65 of a pulmonary embolism, set out to capture the landscape of East Anglia. He showed vast skies reflected in wide waters and tracked how local inhabitants have worked land and sea across the centuries.
His first book of photographs as a sole artist, Still Waters (1989), revealed his longstanding interest in horizons and a highly individual take on the angles and interplay of made and natural environments. After a second book, Wetlands (1990), with David Bellamy and Brendan Quayle, came an official national park guide to the Norfolk Broads (2002) and then A Period Eye (2003), which he edited and partly wrote for Norfolk Museums. Denyer, who was a long-time Norfolk resident, then published a book, accompanied by an exhibition called Neither Land Nor Water (2012), comparing East Anglia with the Low Countries, with which East Anglia has had links across the millennia.
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