They say you should never stop looking for magic, even when you’re all grown-up. For me, that’s what street photography is all about – trying to find a little magic in the mundane.
With that in mind I’ve been working on a street photography project in Totnes, South Devon, for a few years now — documenting the characters, oddities, and small pockets of magic that make this town so unlike anywhere else.
Totnes has always been a place of eccentricity: part medieval town, part bohemian dream.
It has always been an enjoyable town to photograph too, but over the last few months, something shifted. The ordinary began to mingle with the extraordinary, and suddenly, I found myself not just photographing the town and its people (as I have for years), but chasing the traces of Narnia within it.
Why Narnia? Well, in the early 2000’s a sign outside of Totnes read: Totnes, Twinned with Narnia. It summed up a long standing cultural feeling within the town.
My first clue to this magic? It was in the shady garden, where I swore I could see Mr Tumnus himself, sitting on a worn bench, flute in hand, half-lost in thought.
