17th Pollux Awards: Alternative Processes, Winner
17th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards: Alternative Processes Runner-up
2021 PX3 - Prix de la Photographie, Paris, Fine Art, Nature, Honourable Mention
2021 Siena Creative Photo Awards, Nature and Landscape series, Shortlist
Ley selected by Emma Bowkett and Zelda Cheatle for Salon/21 at Photofusion, London
Occult forces of nature are evoked in antique magic lantern slides of British landscapes. Ethereal energy fields appear to be emanating like auras from trees and rocks, offering a newly imagined and haunted landscape. The marks appear corrosive pointing to an intrusion or imbalance with the natural world alluding to our environmentally challenged existence.
