Womankind

Through the lens

“Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognise as modern; they are experience captured.” - Susan Sontag

When I unzipped my tent one June morning, I found myself amongst the , the lush dense grassy swathe beside the sand dunes. It was now covered in snow-peaked meringue. I arrived on the Isle of Harris in February and was told that it was one of the harshest winters they’d had.

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