Hallowed GROUND

Hallowed Ground began with a simple but unsettling question. Have I ever truly belonged anywhere? The project grew out of thinking about place memory and the persistent disconnect I have always felt between where I come from and where I am. It took shape when I moved back to South East London to places like Nunhead, Deptford and Crofton Park. These were areas my parents knew intimately woven into my childhood through stories. They felt both familiar and strangely foreign.

I grew up in a small countryside town that never quite felt like mine. I spent much of my time imagining other lives and other places often feeling as though I was looking in on my own life from the outside. That sense of distance has followed me into adulthood.

Returning to London felt like trying to finish a sentence I had only just begun. I was not interested in recreating my parents nostalgia or retracing their past. Instead I wanted to understand what it meant to come from somewhere. To walk where they once walked to stand in those spaces now and to photograph what it feels like to be there in the present. The camera became a way to bridge memory and imagination and to make something tangible from the space between them.

These images are not about resolution or closure. They sit within a quiet search for connection. About feeling not quite at home but perhaps a little closer.