A Sense of Place is a long-term project about one community and its landscape. Tucked along the hillside below the moors in a corner of North Yorkshire lies the village of Ampleforth which, like any other, holds the stories of the lives of its inhabitants. Some families have been here since the Domesday book - and may stay forever. Some will 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 these pictures was published in Of Life and Land, 2018.
A larger collection, A Sense of Place, is due to be published by Bluecoat Press in 2020.

"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