Work:

Blakemore has always shown a desire to show the beauty of photography. His early work includes a series of photographs on 'tree wounds' and Area in Transition (1964) that explored an impoverished inner city area Hillfields (Coventry). This preoccupation in social and political imagery began to change and in 1968 he began to immerse himself in the landscape. He made trips to rural Wales and "felt spiritually akin with it. It had an overwhelming effect on me"..."a land of paradox, harsh, lunar landscapes, running with gurgling water, and supporting everywhere a riotous life." JB (Inscape). The landscape he visited became important regions "areas which in some way speak to me and which I visit again and again; to learn to see, to allow the possibility of communion of understanding. My photography of the landscape is built around this ritual of intimacy." JB.