Graham Gilmore

“Eppur si muove” — “And yet it moves.”

Italian, translation: "And yet it moves." – Galileo Galilei, mathematician, physicist and philosopher, in 1633 after being forced to recant his claims that the Earth moves around the Sun.

Everything moves, whether through time or space, and that idea sits at the center of my photography. I think a lot about how the elements of a photograph travel through space and time to converge in one unrepeatable instant, and I want people looking at the image to feel like they were standing right there with me.

I work mostly in Long Exposure and High Dynamic Range, with a lot of attention paid to both the shoot itself and the edit afterward. I've been doing this for over two decades now, chasing remote corners of the world for images worth the trip. A selection of my Chornobyl photos was commissioned by truTV for an episode of 10 Things, hosted by comedian Jamie Lee. I've also worked with ArtFully, Bodiam Estates and UCLA.

I picked up photography in England, where my father's camera ended up in my hands more than thirty years ago. These days I'm based in Los Angeles, and the pull to go shoot somewhere new hasn't let up since. I've photographed the English countryside, the lava fields and icebergs of Iceland, the deserts and mountains and coastline of the American West, the forgotten shores of the Salton Sea, the isolation of Easter Island, and the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine, which I have visited more than once.

Most of the time I'm out there alone, in places most people never get to see, trying to capture the moment that actually matches what I felt standing in it. Galileo's Eppur si muove keeps coming back to me, because it's in that kind of quiet, remote moment that you feel most connected to everything else moving around you.

I hope my photographs pull you out of your day for a minute and give you some of that. Prints of the work are available through the site if you'd like to bring a piece of it home. Come along for the ride.

"The moment he was set at liberty, he looked up to the sky and down to the ground, and, stamping with his foot, in a contemplative mood, said, Eppur si muove."