Biography

Alan Norsworthy is an experienced photographer with a career spanning too many years to count. In England, he was a technical photographer who used black and white film and worked in a traditional darkroom.

After coming to Canada in the early 70s the vastness of this country caught his attention and a new path was laid. Since then his work has been mainly based on landscape photography but he can and does include anything that catches his eye.

Alan has won numerous awards for his work which can be found all across Canada, the US, and Europe.

Alan originally made Ontario his home. For almost 40 years he sought out landscapes that had meaning, be they in colour or Monochrome.

His body of work was inspired by the woods, lakes, and open spaces of Algonquin Park and the back roads of Wellington County.

After many years of traveling, Alan settled in the Atlantic Provinces and made Parrsboro, Nova Scotia his home. He continues to seek out new images and finds inspiration as he walks the fields/trails and beaches that he loves.

He continues to work with film in the hybrid darkroom (film scanned and digitized) where the computer has replaced the wet darkroom. Here Alan considers how best to develop each image to represent what he saw and felt at the time of taking.

The final step involves the printing of the image using professional-level printers, papers, and inks.

He also continues to explore techniques from the mid-1800s if he feels that those processes will give him the answers he seeks.

“The Negative is the score, The Print is the Performance“ ~ Ansel Adams