Martin Baxter has worked professionally with digital images sinces the nineteen-eighties, when digital technology first became accessible. Yet while many now see digital as a complete replacement for traditional chemical photography, Martin Baxter sees both as distinct media, each with its own specific strengths and weaknesses. In this view, to speak of digital "replacing" chemical photography is as absurd as, for instance, talking of watercolour painting 'superceding' oil painting. Restrictions and processes give rise to characteristic aesthetics, and this collection of black and white photographs, taken in New England over a period of years, engages with the specific strengths of the medium.

In today's world of easy access to instantaneous high-resolution colour and video-imaging equipment, some might question why an artist would deliberately choose a medium that is slow, technical and demanding of discipline. Perhaps the oblique answer is that in a room full of people shouting, it may the quiet person who strikes you as remarkable.

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