Loci
Travels through place, memory and light
Travels through place, memory and light
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A list of the most impactful monuments in my career as a photographer for your delectation and delight - and perhaps for you to visit one day this year?
I feel so guilty because being here doesn’t feel like work. It’s a joy to be in such a special place watching dedicated and talented people take care of something that means so much to the local community.
And then there’s Marta herself, and Ryan and Deb. At times, when I was photographing them, I lowered my lens and forgot my work for a while, in awe at the respect, reverence and devotion they had for the monument; for they know, that it is far greater than the sum of its parts.
Malmesbury is famously the burial site of the first king of all England: Aethelstan.
The light is storyboarding the building and unravelling the beliefs, hopes and fears of the medieval mind by pricking out the small medallions and their contents within.
Along Scotland Lane I feel it first - a kind of mizzle that comes not in great drops, but as something akin to stardust hovering just above the surface of things and then descending in soft ribbons of gossamer.
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