Aerial Video of St. Mary and St. David, Kilpeck, Herefordshire.
One of the finest village churches in the country. Kilpeck is a delight that sits within an ancient landscape that has been carved out by history.
One of the finest village churches in the country. Kilpeck is a delight that sits within an ancient landscape that has been carved out by history.
The photographs act like wormholes into the time they were taken, and are often the instigators of the stories that I tell within this digest; but more than that, amidst bouts of punishing low self-esteem, they remind me that I’m not an imposter, that I’m worthy of the places I photograph.
Whilst I walk along High Street, the buildings are tinted with a golden hue. As the sky softens, I can sense the day turning in on itself, the light tempered, beaten and bossed into thinness. This golden hour is turning blue.
" ...there are magical places, curated by our forebears, that allow us to escape feudal time, to bathe in an alternative chronology."
Travelling along the lane to St. Melangells is an act of filtration, a redaction of modernity. The pressing matters of the day are pared down with each passing turn.
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I observe how they tied the past into the warp and weft of the present - a material act of not letting go; a way to preserve the thread of history, as if the world might unravel if they didn’t.
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