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Josephine Collingwood Photographer and author As a member of the Dartmoor Search and Rescue Group and author of a well-regarded book on the moor’s tors, it’s no surprise to learn that Josephine Collingwood has always felt a strong pull to the stunning landscape we are lucky enough to enjoy on our doorstep. Brought up initially in London, her family moved to Totnes when she was 16. Although she went away to university, she and her husband, whom she met in a machine gun trench while with the Officer Training Corps, settled back in Devon following the death
of her mum and they’ve stayed in the county ever since.
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Although she already had a geophysics degree, in the 1990s Josephine embarked upon a three year photography course at Plymouth College of Art. It may have been a familial influence - her Dad was a film cameraman while her grandfather was a pioneer in aerial photography during World War I, working with the Royal Flying Corps. After graduating, she spent some 20 years specialising in freelance architectural work, taking pictures of
She has also done a fair bit of web design work, but one of the projects clearly close to her heart is her Dartmoor Tors Compendium, a 336-page book describing all the moorland tors in quite incredible detail, accompanied by Josephine’s stunning photographs. Not only did she research, write and illustrate the book over several years in her spare time, she set up her own publishing company to produce it. ‘I’m so glad I did it that way,’ said Josephine. ‘I could do the book exactly how I wanted it to look. The design decisions were mine, and it made sense really, as so much of my background involved desktop publishing. It’s been a great success, I’ve had some lovely feedback from people and as it’s
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