Once a medieval convent, Lacock Abbey is best known as the home of William Henry Fox Talbot. Tucked away in rural Wiltshire, England, the Abbey and surrounding woodland grounds became both site and subject of Talbot’s wondrous photographic experiments. It was in fact within the Abbey walls, in front of the now famous oriel window in the South Gallery, that Talbot created the first surviving photographic negative.

This past spring I traveled to Lacock Abbey and spent one sunny afternoon there with my camera. My only aim was to explore the environment that Talbot called home and perhaps capture a glimpse of what he was able to see there 175 years earlier.

On view during FotoWeek DC
at The Gallery at Vivid Solutions