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Charlie Waite | Return To Beauty
July 22, 2025“That beauty which is in the eye of the beholder is obviously best left to the individual but might there be a universal, undisputed beauty...Read more -
Charlie Waite | Returning To The Darkroom
July 15, 2025'It has been perhaps 20 years or more since I've made silver halide prints in the darkroom with my Omega 5 X 4' enlarger, and...Read more -
Charlie Waite | Handmade Silver Gelatin Prints
July 15, 2025All of Charlie Waite's silver gelatin prints are made by the artist personally in the darkroom using traditional wet chemistry. To read more about this...Read more -
What Is A Pigment Print?
July 9, 2025Pigment prints in photography, also known as Giclée prints, are created using professional inkjet printers (the paper is supplied as flat sheets or on large...Read more
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Charlie Waite's Pigment Prints
December 13, 2023Pigment prints in photography, also known as Giclée Prints, are created using professional inkjet printers and pigment ink. Photographers choose pigment prints to echo the...Read more -
What Is A Blind Stamp?
January 27, 2022Artists and collectors are naturally keen to ensure authenticity and many artists have their own blind stamp – a colourless impression that is embossed without...Read more -
Leaf, England
Picture/Story: Charlie Waite December 29, 2021'Years ago, I read a quote from John Keats saying that he would like to 'take a greater part in the existence of things'. I...Read more -
Loch Indaal, Scotland, 1994
Charlie Waite: Picture/Story December 29, 2021I have never had the opportunity, and quite possibly never will again, to photograph a collection of cows paddling in the shadows of a Scottish...Read more
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Valensole Study 2, Provence, France
Picture/Story: Charlie Waite December 29, 2021'I am indebted to a noble hotel receptionist for this photograph. I had been to this glorious plain in previous years and found that I...Read more -
Gondola, Venice, Italy, 1989
Picture/Story: Charlie Waite December 29, 2021'I was given some very good advice before arriving in Venice: ‘Arrive, wander through the city, and absorb it all before doing any photography.’ For...Read more -
Val D'Orcia Study 1, Tuscany, Italy 1999
Picture/Story: Charlie Waite December 29, 2021'While working in Italy, I chose to turn east from the Via Cassia towards Rome, and took a road no doubt familiar to any local...Read more -
Buttermere Study 2, Cumbria, England 2012
Picture/Story: Charlie Waite December 29, 2021I have always had a dislike for the chainsaw, which is probably irrational and makes little sense. Perhaps it is simply that the chainsaw can...Read more
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Shangri-La, Yunnan, China 2007
Charlie Waite: Picture/Story December 29, 2021The bleak weather was a blessing when this photograph was made. Had there been a monotonous blue sky, familiar white clouds and more definition along...Read more -
West of San Diego, Spain
Charlie Waite: Picture/Story December 28, 2021I had passed these garage doors many times, and on each occasion, I felt that there were elements that conflicted with one another, yet not...Read more -
Épernay, France, 1989
Charlie Waite: The Story of 50 Favourite Photographs December 28, 2021In the autumn of 1989 I had returned from two weeks work in India. It was my first trip there, because, unlike my contemporaries in...Read more -
Lucca, Tuscany, Italy, 1990
Charlie Waite: Picture/Story December 27, 2021The impulse to make an image of an arcade or cloister probably comes from the same desire that I have to put the camera to...Read more
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Cantabria, Spain, 1990
Charlie Waite: Picture/Story December 27, 2021There are times, after prolonged rain, when despair sets in and the whole idea of further photography seems unlikely and unwelcome. I had been working...Read more -
Willoughby Hedge, Wiltshire, England, 2000
Charlie Waite: Picture/Story December 26, 2021This dear tree is one of my best friends in the West Country. I have known it (although 'it' is too poor an address for...Read more -
Mere Study 4, Wiltshire, England 2021
New Work | Charlie Waite September 22, 2021August 19th, 2021 is a day I shan't forget. Two hours of solid rain preceded the making of this photograph and I was glad of...Read more -
Charlie Waite Signature Finish | Colour Prints
Archival Pigment Prints With Deckled Edges In White Box Frames September 22, 2021Charlie Waite's colour works are all archival pigment prints made on a heavyweight platinum etching paper. They have a very distinct painterly feel which is...Read more
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East of Gibraltar, Spain, 2017
Picture/Story By Charlie Waite July 19, 2021“I had passed these garage doors many times, and on each occasion, I felt that there were elements that conflicted with one another, yet not...Read more -
Rovereto, Italy 1989
Picture/Story by Charlie Waite July 9, 2021It is no secret that I have a passion for investing a landscape photograph with as much depth as possible, when possible. The great poverty...Read more