Behind The Photograph: Evensong at Lichfield Cathedral
We don't need to have professional equipment with us to capture an emotion - sometimes worlds align, atmospheres become visible and we just have to record it from our perspective.
We don't need to have professional equipment with us to capture an emotion - sometimes worlds align, atmospheres become visible and we just have to record it from our perspective.
The house is not simply there to be looked at, but something we feel ourselves moving towards.
A different viewpoint does more than show us something new. It dismantles what we thought we already knew.
It isn't just one photo - but a set of photos that took around ten years to make. I'd always wanted to get the shot, but the clouds had their part to play in stopping me from getting the ultimate photograph. These images are my most published....
We imagine that a camera records what is there. But perhaps it also records the conditions under which something finally became visible to us.
From darkness to revelation, exploring how light transforms what we see.
In times when a fact is not a fact and a photograph is not a photograph, I find a need to blur out what others are telling me and connect with the reality of the present moment.
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.
Each week I send out a short, fresh reflection from the road – photographs, sketches, and observations from old places that still have something to teach us. What follows is a moment from those travels. Northumbrian Light The forecast was good and so the shoot was on. I arrived at the...
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