Worms Wood

Worms Wood

The Rope Swing, was made for workshop led by Fergus Heron (University of Brighton), organised by Independent Photography in the South East of England in April 2026.

The workshop brief was:

Find a place, preferably outdoors, within walking distance of home. Your chosen place can be anywhere it is possible to make pictures, urban or wild, a single street, a park, a place first glimpsed from a moving vehicle, the route of a regular walk, somewhere selected at random from a map, a place you have read about, or is significant to you or others from memory or experience. Using any kind of camera, make a set of pictures in your chosen place using only daylight. If this is not possible, or you wish to work indoors, choose interiors illuminated only by daylight. The artist Ivon Hitchens said: “Don’t try to find a picture. Find a place you like and discover the picture in that”.

These photographs were made in Worms Wood, an 13 hectare plot of former arable land, planted with 25,000 broadleaved trees and shrubs as part of the Woodland Trust’s Woods On Your Doorstep Millennium project.