Fine Art Photography | Darkroom Prints | Film Photographs by Holden Richards

Riverwalk: A Decade Along the Eno

I am inspired by walking the open lands, creeks and rivers of Orange County. When I moved to Hillsborough it became obvious over time that the river was essential to the town's growth, formation and zeitgeist. I walked it daily. It was a natural subject for me as I didn't want to be a portrait photographer or deal with man-made anything compositionally. Photographing generic natural beauty has become its own trope so my thought process was I would commit to a very personal vision of this environment as it revealed itself to me and let others stand where I stood and see what I saw through my work in the darkroom. This location and subjects are at the core of my photographic work for the last decade.

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Praise for Riverwalk

It all looks wonderful, like a piece of chamber music.
--Sean Kernan

It’s a serious act of looking—disclosing a landscape that belongs only to obsessives like Richards and Thoreau—its shapes, tranquilities, energies, weathers, moods, roots, leaves and shadows, and above all, the river. Beautiful work.
--John Rosenthal

I can confidently say I have seen and mentored 100s of photographers for decades taking on the same subject matter, a natural environment near to their heart. BUT few "get it," you clearly do get it. Nothing is forced in this work, instead personal offerings for others who have ever had the experience of walking in and through similar environments. I have plenty a time tried to record it but without patience. And that is what makes yours special.
--Stephen DiRado

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Riverwalk Edition: Limited edition of 100 copies.
Hardcover 60 image - 70 page book.
Essay by naturalist Julie J. Thomson.
Digital offset printing on #100 glossy stock.
Full duotone reproduction.
Printed by Conveyor Studio.