Three Fishes

There is a deep historiography around winter festivals in northwestern Europe, with texts investigating traditions that blend pagan, Christian, and Victorian influences. Three Fishes is a means to explore tradition in relation to personal experiences of the season, capturing moments that feel significant in a process of reflection. The whole process here is an engagement with tradition, home, family, and land. Whalley (in the county of Lancashire, UK) has a deep history connecting it to significant upheaval across religion, industry and technology over hundreds of years. The village’s crest, three fishes, represents the three rivers – the Calder, Hodder, and Ribble – that meet there.

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Three Fishes can be purchased as a self-published 18-page zine from Unitom :

Three Fishes featureed in the Royal Photographic Society’s The Decisve Moment journal – November edition:

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