Blessed Be

‘Blessed Be’ is an on-going, long-term photographic project that explores contemporary paganism in Britain through the personal relationships individuals form with belief, land, history, and ritual. In a cultural moment where institutional Christianity no longer defines religious identity for many in the UK, paganism has emerged as a flexible, non-dogmatic framework through which people negotiate meaning, belonging, and their connection to the natural world.

Positioned between documentation and personal inquiry, the work aims to resist definitive narratives of faith. Instead, I will endeavour to allow participants’ voices, rituals, and environments to remain unresolved, reflecting paganism as it is experienced: plural, evolving, and deeply personal.

Two people in a grassy field at sunrise; one person standing, the other sitting on a rock, with a bottle nearby, surrounded by trees and mist.
Eclectic room filled with artwork, masks, religious symbols, and various decorative objects including skulls, bones, jewelry, and statues.
A shirtless man with long white hair and a beard taking a selfie in a mirror, with tattoos on his chest, wearing necklaces, visible through a decorative green frame mirror.
Bare tree branches against a clear blue sky.
An elderly man with long white hair and a beard, wearing glasses and a black T-shirt with a green tree design, is sitting at a table working on a woodcraft project. The table is covered with a green and blue plaid cloth and has various wooden tools a
An empty outdoor camping chair with a coat draped over it, a walking stick leaning against it, and a water bottle attached to its armrest, set on a grassy field with trees in the background.