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Black Dots: Breathtaking photography series offers pictorial account of the British Isles

I believe a good photographer will make you feel as though you've visited a place, even if you've never been. Something that Nicholas White – a photographer from the South West of England – achieves with flying colours.

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All images courtesy of Nicholas White

All images courtesy of Nicholas White

Graduating from Plymouth College of Art in 2013, his personal work examines our relationship with our surrounding landscape, and the ways in which we interact with our natural spaces.

White explains: "For the past three years, I have been travelling the length and breadth of the British Isles shooting a self-initiated personal project. Black Dots is an exploration of mountain bothies and bothy culture across the United Kingdom, and saw me carry my large format camera from the evergreen forests of central Wales to the snowy munros of The Cairngorm Mountains in Scotland.

"Travelling through some of our most remote, wild and lonely landscapes, I documented these structures and the people who temporarily inhabit them. In January of this year I returned from the last trip of the project."

The stunning work has recently been shortlisted for the World Photography Organisation ZEISS Photo Awards, and a selection of images will be exhibited at Somerset House, London, from 21st April - 7th May. For more information visit nicholasjrwhite.co.uk.

Snowy mountainous landscape with scattered evergreen trees and a small wooden bothy structure nestled in the valley below
Snow-covered conical mountain peak rises above a barren rocky valley under overcast skies, with a small dark figure visible in the distance
Man in cream cable-knit jumper and yellow boots standing in moorland with a misty mountain in the background
Topographical maps of the British Isles pinned to a white wooden wall, marked with brown dots indicating bothy locations across Scotland, Wales and England
Man with greying hair and beard sitting at a table in dim lighting, resting his head on his hand with papers in front of him
A remote green cottage sits beneath rocky mountains across a vast moorland, with an abandoned green boat in the foreground
Remote stone cottage set in rolling moorland with forested hills beyond under an overcast sky, from Nicholas White's Black Dots photography series
A remote stone bothy nestles on a rocky mountainside beneath towering cliffs bathed in golden sunlight, part of Nicholas White's Black Dots project
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