Behind The Photograph: Evensong at Lichfield Cathedral
We don't need to have professional equipment with us to capture an emotion - sometimes worlds align, atmospheres become visible and we just have to record it from our perspective.
We don't need to have professional equipment with us to capture an emotion - sometimes worlds align, atmospheres become visible and we just have to record it from our perspective.
The house is not simply there to be looked at, but something we feel ourselves moving towards.
A different viewpoint does more than show us something new. It dismantles what we thought we already knew.
It isn't just one photo - but a set of photos that took around ten years to make. I'd always wanted to get the shot, but the clouds had their part to play in stopping me from getting the ultimate photograph. These images are my most published....
We imagine that a camera records what is there. But perhaps it also records the conditions under which something finally became visible to us.
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