Hugo Platt comes from an artistic family, Mother and Father training at  the  London Royal College of Art . . . .Hugo's brother is a portrait artist, so it was almost a foregone conclusion that Hugo would follow in the family tradition.
However Hugo Platt's  passion and talent was in another direction - photography.  Starting as 'press photographer'  for a local/national newspaper, he honed his skills both as photographer and printer. Becoming aware of the 'great' of the industry like Ansel Adams who developed the 'zone' system of negative exposure and of black and white printing. 
Hugo Platt had found his media, and became one of those rare breed of photographers who can actually print  his own images in the traditional manner of the great photographers such as Ansel Adams, Edward Watson. W. Eugene Smith. Terence Donavan.
Like these great masters who manipulated their  black and white photgraphic prints to match the image in their head, of the picture they had taken. Hugo Platt works in the  same way.
Most of Platt's work is shot on large format cameras, from 6x9cm to 10x8".  The larger size negatives  give an incredible amount of detail even in this day and age of digital imagery and mega pixels.

Exhibiting in the UK, South Africa and the USA, images by Hugo Platt are fast becoming to the level of the 'greats'  who so inspired him.   Conde Nast Traveller, The Royal Geographical, British Journal of Photography and Photo Art International  are using his urban and rural images.

 

Titles available in this gallery:

Framed Editions  signed - 
Hugo Platt  'White House'  Silver Gelantine Hand Printed   20x24 Edition 15/20 - Framed £800.00 - signed
Hugo Platt  'Kopaonik 2'     Silver Gelantine Hand Printed  16x20 Edition   9/20 - Framed  £670.00 - signed
Hugo Platt  'A82 Scotland'  Silver Gelantine Hand Printed  16x20 Edition  4/20 -  Framed  £570.00 - signed

Unframed Mounted Prints     signed - image size 14x9 inches £80.00 each
Black Line, South Africa , 1997
Cornwall,   Port Isaac, 1994
Kopaonik ll   Yugoslvia,1989
Kopaonik III  Yugoslavia,1989
Animal,Scotland,1986
Balluchulish l   Scotland,1989
Ballachulish ll  Scotland,1996
Clumps of Trees, Scotland,1992
Glen Etive, Scotland,1986
Scottish Evening, 1991
Mork, Iceland,1993
 

"At a time when the art world flounders in a swill of conceptual artefacts and esoteric installations, an exhibition of landscape photography goes down like a glass of clear spring water"  Donald Paul