Lucy is an editorial and documentary photographer drawn to stories of people and their landscape. Informed by her background in wildlife conservation and rural development in West and East Africa and the UK, her interest is in the impressions we leave on each other, on the land, and the marks that a place may leave on us. Lucy works to develop understanding and trust with the people she photographs, allowing a natural authenticity into her environmental portraits. She uses a handheld camera and available light, reaching into the shadows of the natural world, or dark domestic and agricultural interiors, most often choosing to work in black and white. Her long-term project, Ford of the Sorrel tells stories of the interwoven lives and deep sense of connection between people and the land in her home village on the edge of the North York Moors. The work was published by Bluecoat Press in 2021 and shortlisted for Belfast Photo Festival 2022. Lucy combines commissioned work for editorial and private clients with personal work for publication and exhibition. From her home studio in Yorkshire, she produces limited edition prints on heavyweight, matte, fine art paper.

“These wonderful photographs are poems and short stories; they are miniatures and epics; they are tiny movements at the edge of the folding map and huge gestures at the vortex of the turning world. Lucy Saggers’ images have the timelessness of cave paintings but, somehow, the modernity of Instagram. We share their humanity and they amplify ours. Swim around in these deep, deep photographs and then look around your own street, your own village, your own neighbourhood and try and find the timeless stories there because in the end none of us, as Lucy Saggers proves, is very far from the centre of things.”