Lucy Saggers

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    Ampleforth lives and landscapes

    Tucked along the hillside below the moors in a corner of North Yorkshire, lies the village of Ampleforth. Like any other, the place holds the stories of the lives of its inhabitants. My long-term project is about this one community and its landscape. Some of the families have been here since the Domesday book - and may stay forever. Some may soon be gone. But right now their lives are here, embedded in this land, overlapping one another, shaping and shaped by each other - intentionally or not.

    A selection of pictures from this project was published in 2018 under the title: Of Life and Land (available below or via Amazon).
    A larger collection, Ford of the Sorrel (working title), will be published in 2021 by Bluecoat Press.

    "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’s 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.
    "

    Ian McMillan, 2018
    Of Life and Land book (44 pages, 40 pictures)

    Of Life and Land book (44 pages, 40 pictures)

    Old mill dam

    Old mill dam

    Mary and Alex Raynar, EU Referendum Day

    Mary and Alex Raynar, EU Referendum Day

    Our stockings and overalls jug

    Our stockings and overalls jug

    Ampleforth District NDFS mug

    Ampleforth District NDFS mug

    E. Skilbeck & Sons Builders, cart wheel hub cap

    E. Skilbeck & Sons Builders, cart wheel hub cap

    Albert Humphrey setting mole traps

    Albert Humphrey setting mole traps

    John Thompson making coffin pillow

    John Thompson making coffin pillow

    Joyce and Louise Wood lambing

    Joyce and Louise Wood lambing

    Russell Robinson, R. Todd and Son

    Russell Robinson, R. Todd and Son

    John Wall, MJ Wall & Sons, Ampleforth sawmill

    John Wall, MJ Wall & Sons, Ampleforth sawmill

    Betty's baking day (2nd round Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize)

    Betty's baking day (2nd round Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize)

    Herbert and Betty Fox

    Herbert and Betty Fox

    Lynne arriving at Rose Cottage

    Lynne arriving at Rose Cottage

    Lynne washing Betty's hair

    Lynne washing Betty's hair

    Lynne drying Betty's hair

    Lynne drying Betty's hair

    Lynne Lynch, hairdresser

    Lynne Lynch, hairdresser

    Coconut slice (2nd round Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize)

    Coconut slice (2nd round Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize)

    Bringing in the geese (I), R. Todd & Son (Pink Lady Food Photographer finalist)

    Bringing in the geese (I), R. Todd & Son (Pink Lady Food Photographer finalist)

    Bringing in the geese (II), R. Todd & Son

    Bringing in the geese (II), R. Todd & Son

    In the plucking shed, R. Todd & Son

    In the plucking shed, R. Todd & Son

    Mark Robinson preparing Christmas goose, R. Todd & Son

    Mark Robinson preparing Christmas goose, R. Todd & Son

    Jeffrey transferring eggs for hatching

    Jeffrey transferring eggs for hatching

    Goose eggs, R. Todd & Son

    Goose eggs, R. Todd & Son

    Nichola and her father John lining a coffin

    Nichola and her father John lining a coffin

    John Thompson with bier

    John Thompson with bier

    John Thompson cleaning bier

    John Thompson cleaning bier

    Betty Fox and Richard Kirk (I)

    Betty Fox and Richard Kirk (I)

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