Cymru Wales 2009 Cadw Calendar
Published 2008 by Cadw, Welsh Assembly Government. The view of Criccieth Castle was taken by Mick Sharp © Crown Copyright.
Ordnance Survey Landranger Maps 123 Lleyn Peninsula & 114 Anglesey
In spite of GPS a good map is still the best way to navigate, explore, learn about and enjoy the land. We love having our photographs used by the Ordnance Survey and we are most grateful to their friendly and efficient staff for supplying .pdf files of some of the Landranger map covers.
photos: Lleyn Peninsula & Marquis of Anglesey © Jean Williamson.
covers: Crown copyright 2010.
Ordnance Survey Landranger Maps 135 Aberystwyth & 116 Denbigh
photos: Strata Florida Abbey & Ruthin Old Goal © Mick Sharp.
covers: Crown copyright 2005 & 2010.
Ordnance Survey Landranger Maps 191 Oakhampton & 33 Loch Alsh
photos: St Michael's Church, Brentor & Caisteal Grugaig broch © Mick Sharp.
covers: Crown copyright 2009 & 2007.
Ordnance Survey Landranger Maps 76 Girvan & 175 Reading
photos: Kirkoswald Churchyard & North Stoke Church © Jean Williamson.
covers: Crown copyright 2007 & 2006.
Ordnance Survey Landranger Maps 149 Hereford & 134 Norwich
photos: Kilpeck Church & Norwich Cathedral © Mick Sharp
covers: Crown copyright 2007 & 2009.
The Derby School of Photography 1973 - 1983
Poster and catalogue of exhibition celebrating work by former students on the Creative Photography course. Designed by Jayne Matthews.
photo: Llangelynnin Old Church © Mick Sharp.
After completing an apprenticeship in Industrial Photography, I joined the Trent/Derby Course to learn more about photography. I already knew a group of the students and had met some of the tutors including John Blakemore. I was greatly impressed by his work which has been a major influence on my own monochrome photography. The photographs and teaching of Thomas Joshua Cooper and Paul Hill also helped to knock me into shape, while the approach and publications of American photographers such as Minor White, Edward Weston, Wynn Bullock, Alfred Stieglitz and Ansel Adams provided further inspiration, and a standard to aim for. I combined my technical training, existing personal approach to photography and love of ancient sites and landscapes with these additional creative influences to produce my own distinctive style.
This is Archaeology
One of a pair of publicity posters for the Council for British Archaeology www.britarch.ac.uk, the other featured Minninglow Hill.
Photo: Tarr Steps © Mick Sharp.
Council for British Archaeology 1995 Calendar
Published 1994 by the CBA to celebrate their 50th Anniversary: 13 photographs by Mick Sharp. I have had a long association with the CBA, supplying photographs for many of their publications, particularly under the directorship of Richard Morris.
photo: Dolbadarn Castle © Mick Sharp.
Churches in the Landscape, Richard Morris
Published 1989 by J.M. Dent & Sons, ISBN 0-460-04509-1.
photo: St Martha on the Hill © Mick Sharp. I took 25 black & white ground level photographs of churches in their landscapes to go with the aerial views in this influential and well respected book “.....as portraits of churches they cannot be bettered.” Eric Christiansen, The Spectator 22 July 1989. It would be good to work on a new version of the book with colour photographs in addition to the black & whites.
I also contributed black & white photographs to John Betjeman’s Guide to English Parish Churches revised and updated by Nigel Kerr, published by HarperCollins, 1993, and to Discovering England’s Smallest Churches by John Kinross, published 2003 by Windrush Press and reprinted by The History Press.
Church Archaeology Research Directions for the Future, ed. by John Blair & Carol Pyrah
Published 1996 by the Council for British Archaeology, CBA Research Report 104 ISBN 1-872414-68-0.
photo: Bonnington church © Mick Sharp.