You Must Never Leave This Place is an ongoing project that has developed out of a series of conversations over the last ten years, or so. It is the outcome of a process of listening, looking and learning.  Of collecting stories and taking photographs. 

The stories are of life experience and interests pursued with enthusiasm; of home, family, ancestors and local lore.  The photographs, taken in and around the family home, are an attempt to capture a sense of time and place. 

A temporary installation of an edited selection of photographic images made in the family home along with images from the family album was created for the group exhibition Suspended, at House Gallery in London, in March 2010. Click on the thumbnails below to see larger images of the installation.

An online photo and text exhibition drawing on this material, created for the Photomonth Photography Festival 2010 may be viewed here.

Below is an edited selection of photographs from the series:

Development of this project is ongoing. More photographs from the series may be viewed here.