His collages

“The photographs from the ‘forêts du Limousin’ series are interesting because they’re in colour, at a different scale and using a different medium ; I think that although I don’t make those anymore, if I look at the things I’ve done in all my life, they’re ones if not the most important pictures that I’ve made. They really show the relationship with platinum, they show where the platinum prints come from.” Noel Myles, May 2003
	Forêt du Limousin n°2. 3 m x 1,2 m. © Noel Myles
Forêt du Limousin n°11. 3 m x 1,2 m. © Noel Myles
	Forêt du Limousin n°3. 3 m x 1,2 m. © Noel Myles
Forêt du Limousin n°5. 1,5 m x 1,2 m. © Noel Myles
“Between 1989 and 1991 I made 15 visits to the Limousin region in central France to walk through and to photograph the forests there. I’d take 2or 3 rolls with me and process whatever I’d used back in London. I used to line my studio walls with as many prints as possible and then I’d gradually take down groups and try to tease them together to make a picture that would evoke the vitality, richness and pleasure I’d enjoyed a few weeks beforehand. There must be about 150 running feet of here pictures now. Three were exhibited at the Royal Photographic Society in 1992. Some of the others were shown later in Limoges. I must have taken at least 12 000 photographs during this project. I think of the collages as photography approaching painting : looking for relationships of line, tone, texture and colour to harmonise the assembly. Some people have suggested a relationship with cubism but I can’t see it. I was inside my subject, surrounded by it. The sky was hardly ever shown.” (AG)