Gordon Butler was born and educated in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, graduating from art school in the late 1970s with a BA in 3-D Design. In 1980, he moved to London to work as a systems programmer for Prestel – an early precursor of the internet. Subsequently, Gordon worked as a graphic designer, a design manager and as a brand manager in emerging new media. In 2002, he left corporate life behind to run his own web-based company. Ten years later, Gordon exited the company and sold his shareholding. Leaving London in early 2013, he moved to the coast to concentrate on more creative endeavours and now lives in Whitstable.
Photography has been a life-long enthusiasm for Gordon. Since the late 1970s he’s carried a camera wherever he goes. Gordon’s passion is photographing landscape and recording its influence and impact on us. “Our relationship with our environment is complex. We are shaped by it and we shape it. Our perception of landscape, our viewpoint, is constantly modified by the shifting balance between these influences and the aim of my photography is to encourage the viewer to contemplate this relationship.”
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