Essayist & Poet | Wales
The Acclaimed Writings of
Brad Carr
‘‘Nature is, and always will be, our greatest guide and teacher. Nature is the gateway to divine knowledge and wisdom, and the pathway back to our souls.’’
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Where the Camera Becomes a Bridge Between Two Worlds
About The Writer
Brad Carr | Internationally published essayist & poet — Mid Wales
Brad Carr intelligently intertwines his mystical landscape photography with authentic, heartfelt words that echo in the deepest corners of the soul, awakening each reader to a new world of opportunity and possibility.
At a time when humanity is in desperate need of healing, Brad Carr offers his creativity as a balm that alleviates pain and lights a beacon in a twilight landscape, where hope of a brighter future can be found.
‘‘There is a particular resonance that one feels from certain landscapes. These wild, untamed places invoke and awaken the soul, bringing forth that which is inexplicable from within the human vessel. When we take tentative steps into these sacred landscapes, we are entering a cathedral. We silently encounter the divine in the mirror of the outer world.’’
— The Spirit of Place
Poetry
The Traveller
A man walked in;
a traveller,
self-proclaimed with pride.
Wide-eyed and curious,
nothing there to hide.
I stood back and observed
as I often like to do.
I watched his face light up with joy,
I knew his heart was true.
He said to me, with an enlightened smile,
‘‘I love the trees, you know!’’
I mirrored him and asked him, ‘‘Why?’’
He paused a moment.
His gaze met mine.
Then he spoke with softness,
words that won’t get old.
‘‘How could I not love
a piece of my own soul?’’
‘‘A journey into the natural world offers great sanctuary and refuge, a place for stillness and deep reflection. When a man finds himself wandering alone on the clifftops that have been delicately shaped over millennia by the sea’s persistent chisel, what else has he to do but look back upon his own life to understand and make peace with the raging tides that carved the caves and crevasses within his internal landscape?’’
— Learning to See Again, On Landscape, 2024
Selected Works
Essays from the Inner Landscape
A selection of Brad Carr’s acclaimed published and widely shared creative essays — each born from deep stillness and periods of contemplation in the wilderness of Wales and beyond.
Essay | On Landscape, 2025
Cleansing the Soul
‘‘Mornings spent wandering amongst the trees with a camera in hand, before the world has woken, offer something of a spiritual cleansing. They are enough to make one forget about the madness of this existence and return home to the soul of Nature. They offer, for a short while at least, an escape from the world of ego, bringing forth forgotten feelings of belonging and a deep, universal oneness that restores internal balance and harmony.’’
Essay | Finding Light Journal, 2023
Seeking Stillness
‘‘When all is calm in my surroundings, I can hear my truest self. I know that the voice I need to listen to is the one buried deep inside, behind society’s constructs and limiting beliefs that have been passed down to me through generations and by my peers. When I am out here, in the wild places, beside Eryri’s tranquil lakes, beneath majestic mountains, with the branches of the pirouetting silver birch trees wrapping themselves around my weary body, my spirit feels a certain peace, and the voice that I seek is free to speak.’’
Essay | Finding Light Journal, 2025
Photographing Feelings
‘‘In a world quickly overrun by data and machines—machines that can now apparently ‘create’ art—maybe it is time that we doubled down on what makes us human. That means excavating and exploring the worlds we have kept hidden inside our fragile hearts for so long.’’
Essay | Finding Light Journal, 2023
Creativity is Inner Alchemy
‘‘By harnessing the power of our creativity and creating from this place of truth, we become alchemists of the modern world, transmuting our emotional pain and suffering. The ability to perform such inner magic brings the ultimate sense of freedom and the very healing that we need to exist fully here on earth. It gives us the ability to create light from our darkness, and pure beauty out of the ugliness that we all have within ourselves.’’
Essay | Nature Vision Magazine, 2024
A Dance Between Thought & Being
‘‘Through the act of creating work for the world, we are encouraged to surrender our egos, become one with spirit, and open ourselves as conduits for consciousness to flow through. In our training, we become warriors of light and stand together to fight the dark forces that patrol the battlegrounds of our inner worlds. By learning the steps in the dance between thought and being, perhaps we are creating a routine for harmony in the world of tomorrow.’’
SUBSTACK
Brad W. Carr on Substack
Visit ‘Brad W. Carr — Finding Light’ on Substack for photographs, creative essays, contemplations, poems, and inspiration.
Long-Term Creative Storytelling Project
Derw (Oak)
An ongoing photographic and literary documentary
‘‘High up in the mountains of Eryri, ancient oak trees stand as gatekeepers to a sacred wellspring of wisdom and creative power. They wait patiently with open arms, ready to welcome those curious souls who wish to uncover their secrets.’’
Wales is home to some of the oldest and most storied oak trees in the British Isles — ancient sentinels that have watched centuries pass in quiet contemplation. Brad Carr’s long-term documentary project brings together fine art landscape photography and literary nature writing in an extended exploration of these magnificent trees and the mythologies, ecologies, and human stories woven around them.
The project is being developed with exhibition curators and funding bodies in mind. It represents a growing body of work combining contemplative photographic essays with lyrical long-form writing — a natural home for editorial collaboration and publication interest.
Seeking Editorial & Curatorial Conversations
‘‘I look out of the window at the world that is whizzing by.
Silhouettes of pine trees against the twilight blue sky.
These are the moments that help to reprogram my mind.’’
— A New Dawn
Published Works
Photobooks & Publications
Writing Commissions
For Editors & Publishers — An Invitation to Collaborate
Brad’s writing has found a receptive and resonant audience of editors, artists, and general readers across the world who value writing that reaches far beyond the technical; writing that asks something of its reader, and offers something rare in return.
He is available for commissioned work across two areas where his creative voice and artistic vision are particularly well-suited:
Creative Essays — text and image conceived together as a single, unified body of work, exploring landscape, presence, belonging, and the human relationship with the natural world.
Magazine and Journal Features — long-form and short-form writing for nature, landscape photography, wellbeing, and creative practice publications.
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