📍Loci: How a sausage roll, two strangers and a camera uncovered hidden Thetford
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📍Loci: If Buildings Could Speak: The Secret Life of the Ancient Church at Boveney
I am a totem to them. Without me they feel rudderless. They have imprinted me with their hopes and fears, their gains and losses, their happiness and sorrow.
📍Loci: Hebden Bridge and the Forgotten Language of Place
Places that are rich in semantics are fertile ground for reinforcing community and helping it navigate the present.
📍Loci: The Rollright Stones: Finding Sanctuary in an Age of Distraction
There’s nobody else here, so I pull the camera from my bag and start to take some photographs, until I’m shuttered by an overwhelming feeling to strip back - to remove the paraphernalia of modernity.
📍Loci: Looking Through Hockney's Eyes
Here in Paris, with his work all around me, I feel the cataracts of modern life thinning and, for a moment, the light streams in just as it did through the curved glass of my Grandad’s Beetle window, heading east into the promise of Yorkshire.
📍Loci: ✨1620 And The Year Of Paradox
My camera is taking me beyond the threshold of time into the twill and texture of material that has been fashioned by human hands.
📍Loci: ✨The Sycamore Gap and the presence of absence.
I plumped for Birdoswald and missed the opportunity of ever seeing one of the most photographed trees in the country. On 28 September the tree was unlawfully cut down in the dark hours.
📍Loci: ✨ Where Meaning Takes Form: How Tragedy Turned to Hope in a Single Building
"The peeling paint, the muted colours and the rusting iron is no more. Here time’s cataract has been removed, and I’m seeing a building as the Victorians first saw it. "
📍Loci: The Transformative Power of Light 🪄 ✨ 🏛️ 📸
Across a building extruded from the Triassic and Jurassic this isn't just a parable of faith, but also the story of the cosmos itself and our part in it.