"When he first ventured out into the darkness of the Yorkshire Dales 25 years ago, John Arnison's only goal was to find a photographic style that people would immediately know was his. Driving for nearly 40 miles from his home in Leeds to Malham, North Yorkshire in the dead of night, John didn't realise that he was starting a project that would continue for another quarter of a century, and shape the rest of his life."
"I think of these photos as a balm for the soul, said Arnison. I suffered from depression ever since I started failing at school and I couldn't understand why I was failing. I didn't know what I wasn't getting that everyone else was and I just didn't understand it. I came from a very academic family and it was hard for people who were very academic to understand me."
John Arnison set out at night into the Yorkshire Dales to create a recognisable photographic style, adapting techniques learned from caving to outdoor waterfall photography. He drove long distances to shoot at locations such as Malham and photographed waterfalls across Yorkshire, Teesside and Cumbria. Arnison received his first camera at nine, discovered severe dyslexia at ten, and left school at 15 to pursue photography inspired by newspaper photojournalists like Denis Thorpe. He worked in Fleet Street darkrooms and later established a darkroom in Leeds that became a northern photography hub. Photography became an emotional lifeline amid long-term depression.
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