The Babbling Chronograph
A photographic journal of finds from a shape shifting brook.
Historical
35 posts
St. Nicholas, Newchurch
New ways of seeing inspired by the churchyard
Hawthorn
Out in Cheesden there is a track deep cut into the hillside which arches the distance between a brace of mouldering Regency mills sat within the valley basin. It’s a route that has drawn me in for over a year: a deep gouged passage, scuttled with flecks of patterned...
The Divining Rod
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...
Unhinged
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...
There But Not There
Hush. Let us muffle the bells. Let us stifle the trees with knitted yarn. Let us mute the fells. For they are here but not here. Lest We Forget. The beautiful St. Nicholas church, Newchurch in Rossendale... is home for these Tommies and is welcoming visitors to come and experience...
The Golden Ratio
St. John the Evangelist, Elkstone
Angels With Dirty Faces
A glimpse of heaven at St. Nicholas', King's Lynn
The Medieval Ferrari
Imagine a thousand years from now that our descendants find, several feet beneath the earth, a survival from our present times. This object, in near perfect condition, shouldered by a concrete enclosure, appears slowly under the archaeologists trowel and brush. It is largely burnt metal with curvilinear lines and manicured...