Thomas Joshua Cooper (13:30)

'In Cooper’s photographic epic about exploration, colonization, migration and homecoming, he is both narrator and protagonist.' New Yorker magazine

Thomas Joshua Cooper is one of the most celebrated and distinctive landscape photographers working anywhere in the world today. Born in California of mixed Jewish and Cherokee descent, he has lived in Scotland for many years and was founding head of photography at Glasgow School of Art.

He has sought out the edges of the world, mapping land- and seascapes before they are lost to climate change. Securing any one image can involve months of preparation and arduous travel, finally capturing each place in a single negative made with a weighty antique field camera. He is the only artist ever to have made photographs of the two Poles.

Cooper will talk about his extraordinary life and work including his latest project in Scotland, Desire Lines, inspired by a quest for holy sites associated with St Mungo, which has led him to archaic shrines in Ayrshire.

In conversation with James Knox