A PHOTOGRAPHY exhibition currently on display at The Witham is the culmination of five years’ work.
The exhibition by North Yorkshire photographer, Lucy Saggers is titled Of Life and Land.
It features 33 black and white photographs which depict rural life in and around her home village, Ampleforth on the edge of the North Yorkshire moors.
“Even though I was brought up in a town,” said Ms Saggers.
“I have always been drawn to rural life.”
After completing a photography diploma five years ago she began documenting life in the village.
“I’ve spent years getting to know everyone in the village so they’re not self conscious with me and my camera around,” she said.
This relaxed relationship with her subjects is evident in the photographs and a book accompanying the exhibition, which is available for £12, provides further insight into each of the beautifully captured pictures.
Playwright and poet Ian McMillan, who wrote the forward for the book agrees.
Her wrote: “Lucy’s images have a timelessness of cave paintings but somehow the modernity of Instagram.”
The exhibition runs until August 4 and all photographs are available as prints.
