Barrie Trinder - "The Making of the Industrial Landscape" (Britain) - I'm an Industrial Archaeologist as well as a Photographer and predominantly shoot industrial landscapes.
Yi fu Tuan - "Topophilia", & "Space and Place" -A Chines Geographer who specialises in Topography and the use of land, connections between physical environment and human beings.
John Berger - "Ways of Seeing", & "Another Way of Telling", also "And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos" ways of looking at and approaching images.
Rachel Carson - "Silent Spring" Environmental issues.
Franz Kafka - Stories which invert the obvious.
Homer - "The Illyad" & "The Odyssey" a lasting influence and curiosity to explore the past
Hesse, Peake, Kipling more general infuences.
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