I'm happiest when photographing a church. Here's a short film about an evening (and subsequent morning) spent photographing an ancient church in the Lincolnshire countryside. I was lucky enough to have permission to stay over on site in the campervan - so was able to see the full life of...
Finding Sanctuary in a Time of Need
The scene through the viewfinder was one of pastoral beauty: a thatched and jettied cottage, with colourful Gertrude Jekyll borders full of Lupins. As my eyes drank in the peached colours of summer, a single press of the shutter button on my camera brought me tumbling back into the splintered...
A photographic journal of finds from a shape shifting brook.
“That what each of us must do is cleave to what we find most beautiful in the human heritage - and pass it on ... And that to pass these precious fragments on is our mission...” Michael Ventura, 'The Age of Endarkenment' * It might have been a figment of my imagination,...
Snowfall in the valley that time forgot
There are some places that confound the idea of a continuous present. St. Michael and All Angels, Gwernesney in Monmouthshire, is one of those places. Here, it felt like the present and past were bleeding into each other. I’ve often wondered if these wuthering networks of light might hold...
It took just an hour with my camera-eye, to help release the voices of the past trapped in the medieval framing like flies in amber. This screen.. This door.. This hinge... Tells a story. It starts with the fixing of it: the torque and torpor of the maker's hand fossilised...
Venturing Into The Valley That Time Forgot