These photographs, from a work still in progress, are taken in the English countryside. I choose a place, sometimes for a specific reason, but more often guided by the poetics of village names (Cold Christmas, Nasty, Little Gidding, Good Easter…) and explore from there. Driving and walking I search for pictures that speak of this iconic yet hard to define thing “The Countryside” and the interplay of the ideas and feelings evoked by it.

The finished project will be a version of the country formed from the encounters between the countryside of my imagination and contemporary rural England.