Dumnonia by Joe Charrington

Dumnonia by Joe Charrington. Photographed whilst on residency at arts program Dartmoor the book looks at the sights of various sights of ancient Dumnonia.

Ritual, Science, Faith and Farming. A few ways in which humans have interacted with the Devon landscape. From The Bronze Age through the rise of Christianity up to the modern day, Dumnonia looks at the complex relationships we have with the ground beneath our feet.
Walking through stone circles overlooked by granite quarries, the desolate and seemingly endless procession of plantations, listening to the orchestral movements of a geiger counter measure radon particles as flocks of chaffinch call across the expanse, menhirs now christianised crosses and gatekeepers called to service by ancient monuments.

Trudging across the late-autumn landscape of Dartmoor, it was of prompt clarity to me that this was a landscape that demanded attention, an attention to which I’d never directed toward any landscape I’d stepped upon before. Collapsing and folding unto itself, the sparse and shrouded weald of
Devon’s backbone presented itself in a muted and subdued glow, that foreign body of light we call “Sun” barely
acknowledging the ground I led underfoot. This Bronze-age landscape was truly that, one that’s ruins and remnants led a processive rearward call towards time and then back some more, and once again further.

Digitally printed
Swiss binding
Thermographic silver cover
Edition of 250