British-born Guy Sargent is an architectural and landscape photographer who works in the UK. He derives his inspiration from great artists such as Velazquez and Turner, in addition to contemporary work done by Brett Weston or Bill Brandt. Intrigued to the point of obsession by desert spaces and abandoned buildings, he uses a silver-based large format to arrange vast scenes of emptiness and abandonment, set within a delineated frame. The vast scale and the solitude that his images evoke, unblemished by human existence, have surrealist aspects of detachment almost mystical in nature.
