About the Author

John Davies is widely regarded as Britain's leading landscape photographer. Davies makes 'narrative' landscape photographs; each tells a story about process, change, transformation. He began in the mid-Seventies with studies of the wild landscapes of the British Isles, but in 1981 he began an ongoing documentation of urban Britain, concentrating on the changes provoked by the industrial and post-industrial landscape (published in A Green & Pleasant Land, 1986 - out of print and now a collector's item). He has worked widely on architectural and environmental projects in France, Italy, Spain, Holland and other parts of Europe. His photographs have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Pompidou Centre, Paris and in London at the Royal Academy of Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Jonathan Glancey is the Architecture and Design Editor of The Guardian. Writing and broadcasting regularly on all aspects of the built environment, Glancey was previously assistant editor of The Architect and a founding editor of the architecture and design magazine, Blueprint. Described as a "wonderful communicator" by Norman Foster, Glancey is also a regular television and radio broadcaster.