I’ve photographed many projects where artists, artisans and conservators have helped restore—and sometimes transform—the memory of an age, an epithet, a story, a turning point, through a building, a memorial or a piece of art.
For over twenty years I've been seeking out alternative stories in our surviving material culture and sharing them with my photographs and words.
In the late 1990's I had a breakdown that ultimately led me, through a journey that took me away from depression, to a new career in photography. But what was the spark that ignited my journey?
Creating a membership scheme is probably the hardest thing I've ever done..
Despite the epic scale of the moorland, it is the smallest thing - a chapel - that animates the landscape.
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And then, without warning - a chiaroscuro. The landscape delivers its crescendo: the spire of the Marble Church piercing the firmament from a brace of gargoyles, that project above a dip in the distant Clwydian hills.
A Roman Catholic chapel at Biddlestone, built atop a medieval pele tower.
I think it’s because there’s a clarity of message here - a kind of truth that asks nothing of you. Not the sort that needs proving or defending, but one that is simply known, absorbed.
