John Arnison lives with anxiety and ADHD and finds busy cities unsettling, but loves taking pictures of nature at night
When he first ventured out into the darkness of the Yorkshire Dales 25 years ago, John Arnison’s only goal was to find a photographic style that people would immediately know was his.
Driving for nearly 40 miles from his home in Leeds to Malham, North Yorkshire in the dead of night, John didn’t realise that he was starting a project that would continue for another quarter of a century, and shape the rest of his life.
“A lot of the best photographers’ works have their own look, and I needed mine,” said Arnison. “I wanted to come up with something and I used to do caving when I was younger and I knew I could do something really striking by taking photos outside the same as they do in caves.”
For Arnison, who has experienced depression since he was in his early teens, what began as a challenge to find a new creative direction quickly became an escape from a world he often struggles to understand or stay afloat in.
