Allan Pollok-Morris

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Allan Pollok-Morris MSC FRSA is a documentary photographer, bookbinder and publisher. [1]

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Background

Allan Robert Pollok-Morris (b. 1972) is a photographer, publisher and visual media specialist working with large estates and collections. Born in Glasgow he spent his early childhood in Manchester before growing up in Helensburgh on the banks of the River Clyde. He was educated at Lomond School and Strathallan School, and went on to study at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow and Central Saint Martins in London. More recently, he has served as an Associate Lecturer in Photography at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London.

Pollok-Morris developed his career within the London and international press photography industries, working with some of the most respected editorial teams in the world. He established a reputation for innovation at the intersection of high end photography, technology and media production. His work has encompassed pioneering approaches that combine digital and analogue photographic capture and media creation. Since 2019, he has worked with ultra-high-resolution capture systems at the forefront of the field, being the only photographer in the world operating the highest-definition cameras from both ground-based and aerial drone platforms.

In 2007, Pollok-Morris founded Northfield Editions, a Cotswolds-based publishing and imaging business specialising in exceptional-quality, large-format archival-quality prints, books and video. Combining technical precision with a commitment to the long-term preservation and presentation of visual material, the company serves a distinguished clientele that includes the owners and managers of significant private estates and collections internationally.

In 2026 Northfield Editions still produce the finest, largest scale, archival quality photography books and prints documenting private estates and collections.

His practice brings together photography, publishing, archival reproduction and advanced imaging technologies, with a particular emphasis on the documentation, interpretation and presentation of important collections and places. In doing that Pollok-Morris has worked with many respected editors, architects, artists, landscape designers, curators and estate managers.

'Allan is a unique talent among the top photographers in the world. His ability to balance an innate sense of the lyrical with a keen sense of the graphic, makes each of his stories a high point in any issue.'

Conde Nast Global Corporate Photography Director & Director of Photography Vogue USA

'Allan manages to capture the atmosphere of a place perfectly. His images become even more beautiful than reality somehow, as all the textures, colours and vibrancy of nature are so vivid and alive in his art.'

Sting and Trudie Styler

‘Sculpture set in landscape is a notoriously difficult challenge but Allan captures work with such a remarkable tender eye revealing his patience and determination to wait for that magical light and weather moment which makes all the work sing’

Founders of Jupiter Artland

‘Allan Pollok-Morris is one of the rare photographers to understand the pleasures and deeper meaning of landscape.  He makes sure when he films it that the weather, the clouds, the sun and the feeling are right for interpreting what he sees.  Few other photographers have the patience and skill to get the definitive shots.’

Charles Jencks

'Allan Pollok-Morris has the right mix of raw talent and dogged perseverance that is needed to make truly remarkable landscape photographs.'

Tom Stuart Smith

'Allan Pollok-Morris’ architectural photography is of the highest quality. He doesn’t just document a building, his photos reveal his ability to read a building – which is a rare skill indeed.'

John McAslan + Partners

‘Allan Pollok-Morris's atmospheric panoramas lift the ordinary to the extraordinary - these are photographs that you just want to get lost in.’

House & Garden

'Allan Pollok-Morris catches the quintessential qualities'

Sir Roy Strong

'One has the sense that really good photographers are born, not made... This seems to be the case with Allan Pollok-Morris.'

The Daily Telegraph


Exhibitions

Exhibitions include:

Honours and awards

Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA).

Publications

References

  1. ↑ "Allan Pollok-Morris' 'Close' encounters". The Washington Post . 23 February 2011. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  2. ↑ "The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh". Professional Garden Photographers Association. 12 September 2008. Retrieved 22 July 2015.
  3. ↑ "Close – Allan Pollok-Morris exhibition". Shetland Arts Development Agency. 7 February 2009. Retrieved 22 July 2015.
  4. ↑ "Chicago exhibition for PGPA member Allan Pollock-Morris". Professional Garden Photographers Association. 21 May 2010. Retrieved 22 July 2015.
  5. ↑ "Allan Pollok-Morris Gets Close". The Dirt. American Society of Landscape Architects. 3 February 2011. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  6. ↑ "Close: The Photography of Allan Pollok-Morris". New York Botanical Garden. 7 October 2013. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  7. ↑ "Close: A Journey in Scotland". The Daily Telegraph . 2008. Retrieved 22 July 2015.
  8. ↑ "Book Review: 'Close' Landscape design and land art in Scotland". Landscape Institute. 3 March 2011. Archived from the original on 22 July 2015. Retrieved 22 July 2015.
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