Northern landscapes are both real places and representations, imagined spaces - notions which are bound to collide in landscape photography. In this book, photographers, academics, curators, and archivists from Germany, Finland, Scandinavia, the US, and the UK address urgent questions about environmental degradation, globalization, consumerism, and the role of new technologies of representation in relation to landscape. Wide-ranging case studies examine the interpretation, experience, and appropriation of landscape in northern Europe, northern England, Scotland, and the Nordic countries. The book explores tensions in landscape photography between an emphasis on proximity and the embodied experience of place and space, and an advocacy of distance and critical engagement and a questioning of the primacy of direct experience.

Darcy White is principal lecturer in visual culture in the Department of Media Arts and Communication, Sheffield Hallam University, where she teaches the history and theory of photography. She is the founder of the Northern Light Contemporary Landscape Photography research group and co-convener of its biennial conference. Chris Goldie is formerly senior lecturer, currently honorary research fellow, in the Department for Media Arts and Communication, Sheffield Hallam University. Recent publications have appeared in the 'Journal of Design History', 'The Journal of International Relations, Peace Studies and Development', and the 'Design Journal'.