📍Loci: Time Portal: The Porch at Malmesbury Abbey
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.
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Behind The Photograph: Cheesden Lumb Mill
I've often argued that surviving structures like Cheesden Lumb Mill are rarer than a medieval cathedral..
Behind The Photograph: C7th Wall, All Saints Brixworth.
This photograph pulls together several disparate forces: Roman material, medieval making, natural pattern, human touch and the psychological pull of a doorway.
Behind The Photograph: Awakening at St. Denis, Paris
The photograph not only captures a view of architecture that is significant, but also the moment the photographer inhabits it.
Behind The Photograph: Fingers of Light at Ripon Cathedral
I was so focused on getting the shot that I didn't feel the red hot radiator pipe beneath my shin until after the exposure.
Behind The Photograph: The Minstrels at Selby Abbey
The minstrel appears to gaze out across the city while we stand beside it. For a moment we share its viewpoint. We are no longer simply looking at the abbey; we are heavenly minstrels too.
Behind The Photograph: in the steps of Edwin Smith
I went away from Didmarton with a new and profound understanding of space and light but I also held a nagging feeling that there was something left unfinished.
Behind The Photograph: Planes and Surfaces, Burano, Venice.
What looks at first like a picture of three flat facades slowly becomes something else...
Behind The Photograph: A Decisive Moment at Barnstaple
There is an element of chance in photography that no amount of preparation can control.