Through the lens of Max Searl, whose photographic narratives explore the relationship between people and place.
Max Searl is a documentary and editorial photographer based in Falmouth, working both nationally and internationally. His work focuses around people and place, believing the two are deeply intertwined, documenting both humans and the environments they inhabit, manipulate and construct. Through people, stories are created, environments altered, narratives woven and culture embedded into a landscape. He views the people he encounters, in both his commercial and personal work, as key to his success in photography.
Graduating from Press and Editorial Photography at Falmouth University in 2019, Max has been working as a freelance photographer since 2023, working commercially for both local and international clients.
His work has featured in The Telegraph Magazine and Huck Magazine, while his commercial projects range from editorial commissions, events, product and lifestyle, shooting for a varied array of clients.
His most recent body of work, Selected Mine Works, documents four different sites across Cornwall. The project aims to shed light on the concealed relics of the mining past, photographing the often-unseen adits and shafts that are often no more than a distant memory. The project was collated and published by Orange Press, based in Edinburgh, and was launched in London at Photobook Café, alongside a group exhibition on Cornish mining.
Max exhibits across the UK. He has published four zines as well as featuring in a further three. A wider range of imagery can be viewed on his website where Selected Mine Works is also available to order via Orange Press (orangepress.bigcartel.com).
