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George Wright is a freelance photographer who has worked internationally for newsaper, magazine and book publishers. His pictures have appeared in the Independent Magazine, the Times, Observer, Telegraph, Country Life, Independent on Sunday Review, Departures (USA) and the Istituto Geografico de Agostini (Italy). Books include English Topiary Gardens (1988), In Time of Flood (1996), Dorset Man (2006), Dorset Women (2006) and Dorset Coast (2007). His work has been exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Chicago Botanic Gardens, Dorchester Museum and Bridport Arts Centre. His photographs are in the permanent collections of the National Portrait Gallery, Dorset County Hospital and Dorset County Council.

George Wright was born in 1950. He studied Graphic Design at Wimbledon School of Art and has been a photographer since 1975.

This image is one of a series of portraits of English oak trees that were inspired by the photographs of the Endurance, taken by the Australian photographer Frank Hurley during the Shackleton Antarctic expedition, and by O. Winston Link's night photographs of the last steam locomotives in America.