Author Event with Lucy Saggers

Foreward by Ian McMillan

“These wonderful photographs are poems and short stories; they are miniatures and epics; they are tiny movements at the edge of the folding map and huge gestures at the vortex of the turning world.

Lucy Saggers’ images have the timelessness of cave paintings but, somehow the modernity of Instagram. We share their humanity and they amplify ours.

Swim around in these deep, deep photographs and then look around your own street, your own village, your own neighbourhood and try and find the timeless stories there because in the end none of us, as Lucy Saggers proves, is very far from the centre of things.”

L U C Y    S A G G E R S    P H O T O G R A P H Y

Lucy Saggers is a documentary photographer based in north east England. Despite growing up in a city, she has always been drawn to documenting rural life. Her work begins with the tiny stories of everyday, through which she explores universal human experiences of connection, community and belonging, particularly conscious of the impressions we leave on each other and the land, and, in turn, of the marks a place may leave on us.

Lucy Saggers’ process involves working to build understanding and trust with the people she photographs, to allow natural authenticity into her portraits. Remaining as unobtrusive as possible, she uses a handheld camera and available light, applying techniques to reach into the shadows of the natural world or dark domestic and agricultural interiors. She often works in black and white to focus on the key elements of light, composition and texture, producing limited edition, fine art prints from her home studio.

The series Ford of the Sorrel documents overlapping lives within her home village of Ampleforth over a ten-year period (shortlisted Belfast Photo Festival 2022; published by Bluecoat Press 2021; exhibited Brewery Arts 2019; Ryedale Folk Museum 2018; second round Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize 2015; shortlisted RPS IPE 2018).

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