St Oswald’s Way

These photographs were made while walking St Oswald’s Way, a 100-mile route through Northumberland, finishing on the holy island of Lindisfarne. The path follows terrains shaped by the life of Oswald – a 7th-century Anglo-Saxon king, where histories of devotion, work and survival remain embedded in the landscape.

The work is rooted in personal loss. The island became a refuge after the death of my father. While making the work, walking became a form of meditation. The photographs were made intuitively, without preconception, using a compact, fixed lens camera. What emerged is not a straight document of the walk, but a record of a spiritual journey, encountering places already charged with religious belief, the marks of ancient human settlement, and personal memories.