As photographers, churches are an easy go-to topic for many of us. There’s plenty of them, they’re usually pretty welcoming to cameras and you don’t have to rely on the weather to photograph them. But, perhaps one downside is that many traditional churches look quite similar to each other. Looking at Thibaud Poirier’s fantastic series Sacred Spaces however, demonstrates that there are myriad opportunities to find unusual ecclesiastical architecture if you’re prepared to put the legwork in.
Most of the churches in the series are found in Europe, with many in France (where Thibaud lives) but some in neighbouring countries such as Germany. However, he also ventured further afield particularly to the US and Japan. The Sacred Spaces series is just one of several Thibaud has worked on in recent years, including one particularly popular one on libraries.
A loose criteria was applied for finding the churches. As he explains, ‘I didn’t
