28/12/2025
I’ve been slightly quiet on here for the last few months, not having much time to post. However, I have been working on my new project ‘Consecrata’ and have been slowly updating the selection of imagery.
The series examines how spirituality is experienced through place emphasising personal perception within spirituality over formal doctrine, suggesting that the sacred is often encountered in the material world.
An important influence is Liz Wells, an author and academic whose work has been a cornerstone for much of my thinking and photography. Wells explores the concept of photography and place, arguing that environments (and/or photographs of such) mediate human experience and shape our understanding of identity and belonging. She emphasises that places are not passive backdrops but active participants in the construction of meaning. This perspective highlighted to me how spaces can evoke presence, reflection, and introspection, not just through their religious symbolic imagery, but through atmosphere, light, and spatial experience.
By photographing place, the series aims to highlight how environments mediate spiritual experience, often offering moments where the ordinary becomes imbued with the transcendent. It invites viewers to recognise that our sense of the sacred is often grounded in space itself, in architecture and environments that shape perception and foster connection to that which lies beyond the visible.
It’s still a work in progress that I will slowly be focusing on but I’m excited to explore this new route of exploration!
