Charlie Waite is now firmly established as one of the world’s leading Landscape photographers. He was born in 1949 and worked in British Theatre and Television for the first ten years of his professional life.

Throughout this period he became fascinated by theatrical lighting and design. Gradually the landscape and the way it can be revealed to us through light and shade stole him away from the acting profession.

Over the last twenty-five years, he has lectured throughout the UK Europe and the US. He has held numerous one-man exhibitions in London and has exhibited twice in Tokyo. He has had a solo exhibition at the Centre for Photographic Art Carmel, California in 1999 and in April 2001 had a highly acclaimed one man show on Broadway in New York. In April and December of 2002, he enjoyed highly acclaimed exhibitions of his work at the OXO Gallery on the South Bank, London.

Charlie Waite uses conventional fine grain transparency film. From this medium his images are drum scanned and printed as Giclée prints with light fast inks on fine art paper. Through this procedure he achieves the depth and detail in the image that he demands.

His style is unique in that his photographs convey a spiritual quality of serenity and calm. He has established a worldwide reputation for his particular approach to his work. His photographs are held in private and corporate collections throughout the world.

He is frequently to be seen on British television discussing the finer aspects of Landscape Photography. In September 2005, Waite completed filming for a six part Television series on Landscape Photography. He has worked with numerous distinguished authors including Adam Nicolson, Jan Morris, John Julius Norwich and A.N.Wilson. His book on the Landscape of Spain with text by the Duke of Wellington was highly acclaimed throughout the UK.

The year 2003 saw the publication of Charlie Waite’s twenty second book “In My Mind’s Eye”, his first book of black and white photography. The British press said recently of his best selling book The Making of Landscape Photographs that “Charlie Waite puts the soul back into the Literature of Landscape Photography”.

2011 saw the publication of his twenty forth book “Arc & Line”.

The Millennium year saw Charlie Waite being awarded the prestigious honorary fellowship to the British Institute of Professional Photographers and in early 2007 he was presented with Amateur Photography’s Power of Photography award, which is given to a photographer whose work is deemed to effectively demonstrate the powerful and memorable images of which photography is capable.

He is the owner and founder of Light and Land, Europe’s leading photographic workshop and tour company. Light & Land run photographic tours, courses and workshops worldwide that are dedicated to inspiring photographers and improving their photography. This is achieved with the help of a select team of specialist photographic leaders, all at the very top in their field.
In 2007 Charlie launched Take a view, an annual nationwide photographic award (now in it’s fourth year) to find the UK’s ‘Landscape Photographer of the Year’, which ties in perfectly with his desire to share his passion and appreciation of the beauty of our surroundings through photography.

TITLE PUBLISHER

NATIONAL TRUST BOOK OF LONG WALKS Weidenfeld 1982

LONG WALKS IN FRANCE Weidenfeld 1983

LANDSCAPE IN BRITAIN Pavilion 1983

DAVID STEELS BORDER COUNTRY Weidenfeld 1984

ENGLISH COUNTRY TOWNS
Webb and Bower 1984

THE LOIRE George Philip 1985

PROVENCE George Philip 1985

LANGUEDOC
George Philip 1985

DORDOGNE George Philip 1985

VILLAGES IN FRANCE Weidenfeld 1986

TUSCANY
George Philip 1987

THE RHINE George Philip 1987

LANDSCAPE IN FRANCE Elmtree 1988

SCOTTISH ISLANDS Constable 1989

CHARLIE WAITE’S VENICE
George Philip 1989

CHARLIE WAITE’S ITALIAN LANDSCAPES
Hamish Hamilton 1990

ANDALUSIA George Philip 1991

LOMBARDY George Philip 1991

CHARLIE WAITE’S SPANISH LANDSCAPES
Hamish Hamilton 1992

THE MAKING OF LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHS
Collins and Brown 1992

SEEING LANDSCAPES
Collins and Brown 1999

IN MY MIND’S EYE GMC 2003

LANDSCAPE, THE STORY OF 50 PHOTOGRAPHS
Colins and Brown 2005

ARC & LINE Flung Publishing 2011