“Instantly recognisable, Charlie Waite’s landscapes are rare perfections of light, colour and composition, and offer the viewer a luxuriant portrait of a planet at peace, and one where mankind and his activities are in harmony with his surroundings. There is no explanatory verbiage to endure, no theory to absorb and one’s emotions are immediately engaged. It is no surprise that Charlie Waite has become one of the most celebrated landscape photographers in the world.
His photographer’s eye selects with such precision that often what we see in his images are beautiful designs, some verging on abstraction, and one might almost believe that man’s use of the land, where shown, has an aesthetic as well as a productive purpose. His pictures have luminosity, an inner quietness and possess a sense of “being there”.
Hugh Mooney
Royal West of England Academy
