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The First Camera
From "A Singular Point of Light"
A little hug every Friday
Genius Loci
Spirit of a Place
Spirit of a Place Exhibition. Bury Art Museum. On until April 2022. When people look back upon our time, I think that one of the defining phrases to describe our generation might be ‘the era of detachment.’ Perhaps it’s too harsh a description, but there is a growing sense...
A Bell Isn't A Bell Until It Rings
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...
The Babbling Chronograph
A photographic journal of finds from a shape shifting brook.
Midden
A magical quirk of nature
A Pattern Language
Just a couple of miles from Bury in Lancashire is a place that I’ve been exploring for over a decade: Cheesden, a valley that time forgot. It’s a deep cut thrutch, a gravelly, wooded vale of a few miles in length, embracing the industrial and agricultural remains of...
Warp and Weft
Photographing the Sutherland Tapestry