Work:
Cooper is preoccupied by using the landscape to portray a passing of time and a narrative. He states that "gazing is my primary physical activity. Stillness and silence surround and submerge event. Nothing happens, nothing ever seems to happen. Anticipation builds and extends."..."I work on the periphery of populated and cultivated land-spaces. I work in familiar and ordinary places, easily accessible, and often overlooked. I am irresistibly drawn towards, quiet, towards the far edges of a place."
For Cooper the landscape is a space which is filled with emotion and gesture and for both the photographer and viewer a space of anticipation and memory.