Where The Silence Lives

“Where the Silence Lives” is a quiet journey through the rural and semi-urban corners of North West England — a place where silence is not the absence of sound, but the presence of space.

This land, with its mists, its textures, its quiet rhythms, has become a temporary home for me and my family — a space of pause and reflection after being displaced by war. Though my family is not all together here, the silence in these photographs sometimes carries the weight of absence, the quiet hope of reunion, and love that stretches across borders.

Created far from home, this series is also a reflection on silence itself — silence in old stone, in shadows falling across simple, almost unnoticed objects. It is an attempt to see and feel silence not as emptiness, but as presence: of light, of shadows, of life. These photographs speak of ordinary things where time, distance, loneliness, and love quietly dwell.

Captured in black and white, this ongoing work explores not only the outer landscapes but also the inner ones: foggy mornings, empty paths, ancient trees, and moments suspended in stillness. Somewhere within this stillness lies the quiet process of searching — for meaning, for grounding, for a sense of self in unfamiliar terrain.