‘I Lay Here For You’ by Tracey Emin is now open to the public at Jupiter Artland near Edinburgh.

I’m very excited to share more info about this commission. When photographing other people’s art it’s a balance between communicating inspiration and the documentary approach to show the work ‘as is’ and not overlay preconceptions… I’m not being flippant when I say I purposefully avoid researching subjects, as the photography is a surface, aesthetic exercise.

All credit to the subject, light and location, simple, but close to heaven, in a wild British beech wood in Spring at the wonderful Jupiter Artland near Edinburgh where there is also a new exhibition of paintings and drawings by Tracey Emin.

A lowland Scottish wood, is my own natural habitat, but I didn’t want to fall back on familiarity and worked to bring something new to the photography. I used a new 15 stop high dynamic range technology (the ability of a camera to see the range between dark and light) for long exposure photography on the lowest ISO, highest definition camera, capturing the finest detail in otherwise impossible conditions.

I wanted dense fog and I needed the camera to see through it in the early morning twilight, even darker under tree canopy and a combination of the Phase 1 IQ4 150+ megapixel cappture and a very high quality, Schneider leaf lens shutter was a lovely solution.

Imagine the most diffused, gentle light and an intense, shimmery wetness on every surface, the detailed highlight of every tiny densely packed drop of water reflecting on the bronze surface was light illustrating art.

I’m very lucky to work with gifted curators, collectors and critics, they help me keep an open minded approach, trying out new ideas and technologies, but it’s a double edge sword. Particularly with the critical eye of highly accomplished contemporary artists, so it was such a pleasure when all involved loved the photos which were released to the press yesterday.