Thomas Joshua Cooper - 'Point of No Return'

I visited this exhibition today at the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester. Thomas Joshua Cooper has travelled the length and breadth of the Atlantic Seaboard for this project, taking one shot only at particular landmarks (i.e., 'Furthest point West' etc). He uses a huge field camera, and the shots are all monochrome, printed up to a fairly large size in this exhibition.

The shots are invariably land and water, but the themes are broader. Cycles, permanence and time are suggested, beyond the ink of the print. This seems to be a travelling exhibition (as well as a book), and an ongoing project (he's now doing the Altantic coast from the Americas) so I look forward to seeing the theme developed. An interview with TJC is here.