ANOTHER PLACE

Spending time in an unfamiliar place can change you. It can also change the way you make photographs. The black & white photographs in this collection were made without any apparent purpose - not part of some conscious schema. Taken in west Wales and Cornwall between 2013 and 2018, each photograph was an immediate response to a particular place at a particular time. Brought together for the first time several years later, they reveal a story of place, dislocation and longing.

Striking similarities are to be found between west Wales and Cornwall. Landscape, language, trade and the early exchanges of those spreading Christian belief have all contributed to a peculiar sense of equivalence. Perhaps it comes from the proximity to the sea once so important to expanding the Celtic world, perhaps it runs deeper? Moving through these places it is still possible to sense an uneasy spirituality that at times borders on the uncanny.