INTERVIEW
Jason Ingram
The leading garden photographer has just published his first book. Niall Hampton finds out more
Jason Ingram
Garden photographer
An award-winning garden photographer based in Bristol, Jason Ingram travels widely photographing gardens, plants and people for the UK’s leading magazines.
He has also provided photography for numerous best-selling gardening books by top garden designers and been awarded ‘Garden Photographer of the Year’ by The Garden Media Guild six times.
Ingram’s personal work has seen him photograph the landscape and coastline of Britain for over 25 years, and in 2008, he was awarded ‘Landscape Photographer of the Year’ for the ‘Living the View’ category.
He is also an educator, lecturing about his work and teaching garden photography courses, and his work is held in numerous private collections. f you’re into gardens and own a few books that showcase the
I best gardens in the UK and further afield, the chances are it features images from Jason Ingram. A leader in his field, Ingram has photographed many beautiful gardens as a contributor to a range of magazines, newspapers and TV programmes.
He is also an educator, branching out last year to launch Create Academy’s Online Garden & Landscape Photography masterclass, and more recently to write his first book, How to Photograph Gardens, which contains everything you could need to know about capturing the fruits of leading garden designers, producing visual feasts that help us take a step back from the frenetic pace of everyday life. As the book goes on sale, we sat down with Ingram to discover more about his photography.
How did you start out in photography?
I was fascinated by the undersea world of Jacques Cousteau and his incredible footage that was on TV in the 1970s. From that point, I was interested in the world of visual imagery, whether moving images or stills, so I knew I wanted to be a photographer, an image-maker – pictures were my thing. At school,
I was always keen on photography and as soon as I could, I went to Salisbury College of Art and studied advertising-and editorial-based photography.