Ford of the Sorrel (working title)
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 work 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 these pictures 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.
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"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
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A selection of these pictures 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.
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"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
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Of Life and Land book (44 pages, 40 pictures)

Old mill dam

Mary and Alex Raynar, EU Referendum Day

Our stockings and overalls jug

Ampleforth District NDFS mug

E. Skilbeck & Sons Builders, cart wheel hub cap

Albert Humphrey setting mole traps

John Thompson making coffin pillow

Joyce and Louise Wood lambing

Russell Robinson, R. Todd and Son

John Wall, MJ Wall & Sons, Ampleforth sawmill

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

Herbert and Betty Fox

Lynne arriving at Rose Cottage

Lynne washing Betty's hair

Lynne drying Betty's hair

Lynne Lynch, hairdresser

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 (II), R. Todd & Son

In the plucking shed, R. Todd & Son

Mark Robinson preparing Christmas goose, R. Todd & Son

Jeffrey transferring eggs for hatching

Goose eggs, R. Todd & Son

Nichola and her father John lining a coffin

John Thompson with bier

John Thompson cleaning bier
