DARTMOOR is the subject of a new exhibition at Exeter City Council’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery (RAMM).

The museum has acquired photographic artworks by four different artists featured in the groundbreaking exhibition Dartmoor: A Radical Landscape.

Five images have been acquired from Robert Darch’s Ten Tors series, which comprises photographs depicting South Dartmoor College students training for the Ten Tors Walk.

The photographs explore young people’s response to the moor, capturing moments of joy, exhaustion, and resilience, as well as pushing the technical boundaries of photography in a storm.

Darch said: ‘I am honoured that RAMM is acquiring five images from my Ten Tors series for their permanent collection.

‘The work documents young people training on Dartmoor for the Ten Tors and their connection to this special landscape.’

Four images from Fern Leigh Albert’s photographic series Wild Campers have also been acquired.

The series documents the wild camping campaign on Dartmoor.

Leigh Albert uses photography as a form activism to raise awareness of the campaign, which has reignited the land rights movement within the UK and helped to win a high court case.

Leigh Albert said: ‘I am delighted RAMM has acquired my work, which documents a key moment for land rights within the UK.’

RAMM has also acquired three images from Nicholas J. R. White’s photographic series The Militarisation of Dartmoor, which identifies militarisation as part of Dartmoor’s cultural heritage while acknowledging the damage caused to the local environment.

His work considers humanity’s relationship with the land, dealing with themes of nature restoration, temporality and dwelling.

White said: ‘I am thrilled that RAMM has acquired my work documenting Dartmoor National Park's long and complex relationship with the military, which has existed for thousands of years long before the area’s official designation as a National Park in 1951.

‘The work was made during my time living on Dartmoor, and studying at Arts University Plymouth, and it’s an honour that it now sits in the permanent collection.’