A collection of photographs and experiences among the haunting beauty of the Lancashire wetlands

Meres are shallow, peaty bodies of water found in the boggy wetlands of northern Europe. These wetlands are stark places often overlooked by modern people and home only to wildlife, yet I’ve always felt a deep connection to them. The book details my search for lost connections to places that were once expansive habitats stretching far and wide, but now only remain as fragmentary relics of a time long since lost from human memory.

Despite the bleakness, these places feel innately magical and otherworldly, one can’t help but feel transported to a world long ago while staring into the black, inky pools of still water while egrets move like ethereal ghosts in the gloomy fug of a winter’s dawn.