Ecclesia

This series explores the quiet, often unnoticed moments within the vast interiors of cathedrals or other places of worship. These spaces are built for grandeur, a testament to the faith of their builders and designers, landmarks dedicated to the majesty of God. Yet, despite their overwhelming size and presence, I am drawn to the quiet moments, the intimate stillness that lies within their walls.

Each photograph is a meditation on presence and absence, light and shadow, the intersection of architecture and silence. I am drawn, not only to the stone vaults, rose windows, and sweeping naves, but to the way time settles in these spaces. Shadows stretch beneath vaulted ceilings, dust lingers in the colored light of stained glass. Candles flicker and figures kneel or sit in silence.

Windows, intricate with centuries of craft and devotion, cast stories into stone. The walls are bathed in a kaleidoscope of sacred color. Light becomes almost sentient as it transforms both the space and the way we experience these houses of worship.

These photographs do not document monuments, instead they observe what remains in the hush between centuries of footsteps. They observe what remains in the stillness when the choir stops singing. They reflect on what is carried in the colored light that falls across empty pews. And they seek to capture the feeling of a space that holds centuries of reverence, stillness, sorrow and beauty.