About the collection:
The Isle of Man is a small island in the middle of the Irish Sea, forty miles long and ten miles wide or thereabouts, with a population of around 70,000 people who have Celtic, Norse, Scottish and British ancestry.
I visit there every year, staying with friends who live in a farm cottage nearing two hundred years old. It is in Ballaugh Curraghs, a rural farm area on the outskirts of the village of Ballaugh between the main road and the sea. Their home has a comfortable, old world village feel, the kind of place where friends and family convene and enjoy each other's company in good cheer.
One wet morning on this year's trip, I found myself alone in the house, entranced with the fog and rain filtered light illuminating the small spaces. And so this set of photographs came to be, celebrating the beauty of the small things that surround us in a comfortable home: a thank you for the kindness of friends and family.
- Godfrey
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