Jasper Goodall says of his work “I think of my photographs as being more akin to fairy tale than documentary. They transport the viewer into a netherworld - a version of reality, but not as we are used to experiencing it.”

Jasper Goodall (born in 1973 in Birmingham) is a British photographer and former illustrator whose trend setting illustration work brought him wide attention in at the turn of the century. He was best known for his editorials in the Face Magazine, Dazed and Confused and his images for the English band Muse. He has had joint and solo shows in Tokyo, Hamburg and London.

In 2014 he left the world of commercial illustration and spent several years training as a counsellor at the Psychosynthesis Trust in London. This period gave him the opportunity to take stock and re-imagine his creative output in a new and very different form; exploring the landscape at night.

Goodall’s nocturnal series Twilight’s Path has been described as being at once beautiful and terrifying. The images reference notions of the Sublime in Romanticism; the idea that a kind of thrill of delight can be gleaned from viewing something terrifying. His images are an attempt to capture the stillness, the sense of hushed, waiting presence that is palpably felt between the dark boughs.

"I want to bring a  sense of unfamiliarity into the images; to present commonplace nature in a peculiar way. This is, in part, a reaction against our over sanitised and conditioned lives. The night forest is devoid of people. It is an undomesticated wilderness right on our doorstep."

You can see a short Instagram video of his work too here...