1-to-1 Guided Creative Writing Journeys for Photographers
Language of the Inner Landscape
Give voice to the stories your landscape & nature photographs are longing to tell through guided creative writing sessions that begin with presence, use your images as portals, and help you find the deeper words for what is often left unspoken.
You’ve spent years learning to see: refining your eye, deepening your relationship with the landscape, creating photographs that carry threads of who you are. But when it comes to writing about your work, the words don’t come so easily.
Perhaps you’ve been invited to write an artist statement for an exhibition and found yourself staring at a blank page, unable to articulate what feels so clear behind the lens. Perhaps you’re working towards a photobook and sense that the images alone don’t tell the whole story; that there are threads of meaning, memory, and philosophy woven through your photographs that deserve to be spoken.
Or perhaps you simply feel that writing could deepen your creative practice; that by learning to give language to your inner landscape, you might come to understand your own photographs more fully, and share them with greater depth, purpose, and intention.
These sessions exist for all of those reasons, and more. They are a space to slow down, to sit with your photographs, and to discover what wants to emerge when you stop trying to describe what you see and begin instead to write from where you feel.
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What Other Artists are Saying:
Dee Evans ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
‘‘I’ve been on several creative writing journeys with Brad. Each one of them has been profound. Brad is very skilled & professional in how he leads his sessions; allowing space for silence, integration, and whatever it is that wants to emerge through you — whether that is a poem, prose, word, or an expressive journal entry. Whatever it is, Brad can hold the space for it! His way of asking open-ended questions gets you to reflect on things you’d never usually think about; it’s like the questions he asks help you to unlock certain doors within your own psyche, leading you to answers that you never knew you were seeking.’’
Is this Calling to You?
The Exhibiting Artist
You've been offered wall space or invited to show your work, and you need an artist statement or exhibition text that carries the same depth and authenticity as your photographs; words that genuinely invite people into your world.
The Photobook Creator
You’re assembling a body of meaningful work and feel that the photographs deserve companion writing: an introductory essay, reflective prose, or short texts that weave a narrative thread through the images and give the reader a way in.
The Creative Process Explorer
You want to understand and articulate your own creative process more deeply: why you photograph the way you do, what draws you to certain landscapes, and what your images are really saying about the inner world you bring to them.
The Emerging Voice
You sense that writing could become a vital companion to your photography, but you’ve never quite known how to begin, or you’ve tried and felt the words stay on the surface, never quite reaching the depths you know are unexplored.
What We’ll Work Towards
Words that Reach New Depths & Carry Meaning
Every photographer’s needs are different. Together, we’ll work towards producing whichever of these feels most alive and aligned for you.
Artist’s Statements
Authentic, heart-led statements that communicate your creative philosophy and deeper intent, written from the inside out, not jumbled together from templates.
Exhibition Text
Contemplative writing that invites viewers beyond the frame: essays, poetry, or wall text that honour the work, the process, and the experience behind it.
Photobook Essays
Prose that sits alongside your photographs and adds a layer of narrative, reflection, or philosophy, giving readers a refreshing insight into the world you’ve created.
Personal Process Pieces
Explorative writing about your relationship with the landscape, your creativity, and the inner life that shapes your work: for publication, portfolio, or yourself.
The Collaborative Approach
How We Work Together
Arriving in the Space
Each session begins with a few minutes of grounding: breathing, settling, and gently connecting with the heart space from which your photographs were likely created. There is no rush here. We arrive in the creative space before we begin.
Your Photographs as Doorways
Using a small selection of your images, we enter into a reflective conversation. I’ll ask open-ended questions, not just about the usual technique or composition, but about experience, memory, feeling, and meaning. Your photographs become portals into the deeper stories they hold.
Guided Writing
When something emerges from our conversation that has energy: a phrase, an image, a feeling, we pause and write. These aren’t polished pieces yet. They’re raw, honest explorations: the kind of writing that comes through you rather than from your thinking mind.
Reflection & Weaving
We read back what has been written, notice what feels alive, and begin to see how the fragments might weave together into something more cohesive. Often, the shape of a larger piece reveals itself naturally during this stage.
Between Sessions
You’ll leave with raw material, insights, and the encouragement to continue exploring in your own time. I’m available between sessions for support via voice notes or email as your writing takes shape.
Meet Your Inner Landscape Guide
About Brad Carr
My own creative journey began in 2018, when I picked up a camera and walked out into the Welsh landscape with no clear intention and no real idea of what I was doing or where it would lead. What started as a walk to take photographs quickly became a journey of awakening and a practice of presence and self-discovery.
Writing became the tool that helped me make sense of the mystical transformation I was experiencing.
Over the years, I’ve learnt that writing alongside photography is about so much more than adding words to images. It deepens our relationship with the work itself and is a powerful creative practice that impacts us far beyond our understanding. It was my creative essays that earned me my debut solo exhibition at Plas Glyn y Weddw; the curator told me it was the voice I had given to my photographs that led to 20,000 pairs of eyes viewing my photographs.
I’ve since landed multiple publications in leading magazines and guided over 150 photographers through private tuition, mentoring programmes, and creative workshops. My unique Language of the Inner Landscape offering brings together two practices that have profoundly impacted my life: the contemplative art of photography and the transformative power of creative writing.
What Other Artists are Saying:
Alix Jones ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
‘‘I have learnt so much through these sessions, things about myself and the people around me that I never took notice of. I have also been pulled closer and closer to the beauty around me through every session. You have given me an opportunity to grow in so many ways. You’ve also given me a chance to practice my photography and my creative writing. I never thought I’d be sitting here today with a book full of poems and songs, and a camera filled with not only beautiful pictures, but beautiful memories.’’
Session Options
Choose Your Path
All sessions take place online via Zoom. Bespoke packages can be arranged to suit the scope of your project.
Single Session
£75
75 minutes
Pre-session preparation guide
Grounding & presence practice
Reflective conversation using your photographs
Guided writing exercises
Recommended
Extended Journey
£200
3 × 75-minute sessions
Everything in the single session
Sustained exploration over several weeks
Between-session support via voice notes
Review & refinement of emerging work
Ideal for exhibition or photobook writing
Bespoke Project
£TBC
Tailored to your needs
For larger projects requiring deeper support
Photobooks, major exhibitions, publications
Ongoing editorial guidance & collaboration
Flexible scheduling across your project timeline
Scope agreed upon a discovery conversation
Frequently Asked Questions
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This isn’t about being a skilled writer. It's about learning to give language to what you already feel and know. Some of the most powerful writing I’ve witnessed in these sessions has come from people who said they hadn’t written anything since school. When the pressure to perform is removed and we write from an honest place, the words come more naturally than you might expect. Your authenticity is worth more than any technical polish.
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Not at all. Bring photographs that feel meaningful to you; images you feel drawn to, even if you’re not entirely sure why. Works in progress are welcome. Sometimes the most interesting writing emerges from images we haven’t fully understood yet. I’ll ask you to share a small selection before our session so I can spend time with them beforehand.
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It’s best to come without that expectation. A single session will likely give you rich raw material: fragments, phrases, reflections, and the beginnings of something that can be shaped into a finished piece in your own time. If you’d like more sustained support to develop a complete essay, artist statement, or photobook text, the three-session journey or a bespoke arrangement would be more suitable.
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Most writing workshops focus on technique: structure, grammar, style. This work begins somewhere entirely different. We start with presence and grounding. We use your photographs as doorways into reflective conversation and portals to deeper places within. The writing that follows isn’t planned or structured in advance; it emerges from what is alive in the moment. The result is writing that carries genuine feeling and personal depth, because it’s rooted in your real experience rather than an exercise.
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Absolutely. If you’ve already started writing and feel stuck, or if you have an artist statement that doesn’t quite feel like you, we can use our sessions to revisit and deepen what’s already there. Sometimes all a piece of writing needs is for someone to ask the right questions about what it’s really trying to say.
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We meet via Zoom. You’ll need a quiet, private space where you can speak freely, something to write with: a notebook and pen is ideal, and your photographs accessible on screen. I’ll send you a short preparation guide before our first session. Many people are surprised by how intimate and effective creative work can be through a screen, especially when you’re writing from the comfort of your own space.
The Words are Already Within. Let Me Help You Access Them
If something on this page has stirred something in you, I’d love to have a conversation to answer any questions that have arisen. There’s no obligation; just a chance to explore whether this work might be right for you and your photographs.
Learn More About Me: Podcasts & Documentaries
Documentary: The Art of Storytelling
In August 2024, Murray Livingston and I embarked on a multi-day adventure in and around mid-Wales. The result was this emotionally rich documentary filmed and produced by Murray.
Podcast: Why Every Man Needs a Creative Outlet
In 2024, I sat down for a conversation with James Ainsworth, host of the Man: A Quest to Find Meaning podcast, to talk about the importance of creativity in the journey towards masculinity.
Podcast: Turning Trauma into Breathtaking Art
In August 2024, I made an appearance on Matt Payne’s legendary F-Stop, Collaborate and Listen podcast for a conversation about my life and journey into landscape photography.
Podcast: A Borrowed Camera Brings New Life
In August 2025, I sat down for a conversation with Neale James, host of the brilliant The Photowalk podcast, to share my story of hope, healing, and transformation through the lens of my camera.