Lud’s Church

This photographic series explores the mythic atmosphere of Lud’s Church, a moss-draped chasm in the Staffordshire landscape, long whispered to be the setting of the climatic meeting between Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Through image, texture, and shadow, the work reimagines the psychological terrain of the 14th century Middle English poem, where honour, fear, and nature intertwine.

Inspired by the poem’s vivid natural imagery and rich symbolic framework the images capture Lud’s Church not as a static location but as a living threshold - between light and dark, myth and reality, the known and unknowable. The green-stained stone, the damp hush of the ravine, the filtered forest light - each frame reflects Gawain’s inner journey: his confrontation with morality, truth, and moral ambiguity.