Elemental: Saddleworth Moor

A year-long A year-long exploration on Saddleworth Moor, capturing the seasonal transformation of this wild Pennine landscape through cyanotype.

Four large-scale landscape cyanotypes anchor the series—Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter—each created on-site using that season's natural light and moorland water. These expansive views establish the moor's character across the year: awakening, abundance, decay, and dormancy.

Surrounding these are intimate botanical studies made from plants gathered during each season's visits. Cotton grass, heather, bracken, sedges—each specimen washed in peat bog water from the moor itself. The ancient chemistry of the peat interacts with the light-sensitive emulsion to create unique tonal variations that can never be exactly replicated.

Exposed outdoors using natural sunlight, every piece is subject to whatever conditions the moor offers that day—storm, wind, rain, or sun. Rain marks left on prints aren't mistakes; they're collaboration. These aren't images of the moor. They are the moor—plants, water, light, weather, and time embedded in paper.

A surrender to place. A document of impermanence. A seasonal portrait made by the land itself.