Lecture

We welcome John Birch with his illustrated lecture “Our Wild Pennines”

In 2015, John decided to become a professional wildlife photographer. Although it has never been his sole source of income, it now dominates his working life. John has sold prints, written for magazines and other publications, and run photography workshops at home and overseas.

In 2018, John and his wife left the hustle of a big city to live in the open countryside, moving from the industrial midlands to a rural smallholding in a quiet valley below the splendid wilderness of the North Pennines National Landscape. He has recently moved a short distance to the rolling uplands of the Yorkshire Dales National Park, an ideal location to live and photograph local wildlife.

A recent change in circumstances has refocused his energies on photojournalism once more.

As a nature writer, photographer and long-term observer of the northern English uplands my work sits at the intersection of natural history, reportage and conservation science, shaped by thousands of hours spent in the field in all seasons. His approach is to listen: to the birds, to the weather, and to the people who share these landscapes — keepers, farmers, ecologists and volunteers.

To admire his photos please click on the link to his website.