Despite growing up in the city (Oxford), I have always been drawn to photographing stories of rural landscapes and the lives they hold. Now based in rural North Yorkshire I am interested in the impressions we leave on each other and the land, and in turn the marks a place may leave on us. Central to my practice is spending time developing understanding and trust between my subject and me, allowing a natural authenticity into my documentary portraits. To emphasize key elements of light, composition, and texture I often work in black and white: perhaps it also better conveys the timeless, universal resonance of the unending rhythms of life? Using a handheld camera, available light, and techniques to reach into the shadows in dark domestic and agricultural interiors, I can remain unobtrusive, and produce photographic prints with an honest immediacy and evocative quality.

My major long-term project, A Sense of Place, describes deep connections among individual and overlapping lives within a single rural North Yorkshire village. With funding from Ryedale District Council's Creative Economy a selection of this work was self-published (Of Life and Land, 2018). In 2020 a larger collection, A Sense of Place, will be published by Bluecoat Press.

RECENT HIGHLIGHTS
2019 final round British Journal of Photography Portrait of Humanity
2018 shortlisted Royal Photographic Society's International Photography Exhibition 161
2018 nominated RPS Hundred Heroines
2017 highly commended Bowes Museum Only in the North
2015 winner, Craft Photographer of the Year, Prince’s Foundation, London
2015 second round National Portrait Gallery Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize

COMMISSIONS
In addition to her personal work, I undertake commissions, talks, and workshops.
Please don't hesitate to get in touch for any more information.



"Lucy Saggers is a modern visual poet."

Joe Cornish, 2018



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