Many of the landscape photographs, produced wittingly or not, by hand or by mechanical procedure, revelled in the picturesque wilderness - more images critically composed as splendid views in which dramas of a human scale have, or might, transpire - dramas of occupation, of rape, of birth, of death.

The public distribution of such photographs, unaccompanied by the story of the path that was laid in its taking, fails to check the bio-cultural instinct to physically occupy the view, and then to colonise the next horizon.

Photographers are not renowned as desirable curators of the unknown. Wilderness landscape photographers, who prey on endangered places and who release their pictures to an expectant public without the story of their production, without declaring their path, are among its most wilful violators.

JR. Journal entry: December 1995