David Parker’s landscape photographs approach the landscape metaphorically, including the artist’s intimate involvement in the whole drama and ritual of their making. His metaphorics is a fascinating mixture of the objective and the subjective, the formal and the allegorical: complex, rich in illusion and yet photography. We need photography that demonstrates humankind’s inhumanity towards nature and its culpable disregard for the fabric of our planet. Text by Gerry Badger.