Paul Wainwright
- Spiral Stairs, Congregational Church Woburn, Massachusetts, 2001
In 2008, Paul Wainwright desired to include aspects of Historic New England’s intact structures in his pursuit of capturing historic spaces in large format black and white photography. Rocky Hill Meeting House in Amesbury, Massachusetts, is featured in Mr. Wainwright’s publication Colonial Meetinghouses of New England. In colonial New England, such structures were the center of both civic and religious life. Only a few of these buildings remain as they were. This project explores and documents the essence of what they project.
Paul Wainwright is a photographer based in Atkinson, New Hampshire, who works in a traditional manner utilizing sheet film, a large-format camera, and silver gelatin printing. His work has appeared in numerous juried competitions and solo exhibitions, and is included in the permanent collections of both private and corporate collectors, including Fidelity Investments and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
- Detail of a pew in Rocky Hill Meeting House, Amesbury, Massachusetts.
Mr. Wainwright is a self-taught photographer who brings to his images an eye for space and light, subtle details, and an appreciation of history. Working with traditional photographic media such as 4" x 5" sheet film and silver gelatin paper processed in a wet darkroom, Paul Wainwright achieves in his prints a sense of quiet contemplation that comes from the slow, Zen-like pace of creating his images.
