The importance of mental health has become better understood in recent years – photography and the natural world have been saviours for me. Plants and flowers bring such joy, they nurture us with their very existence, their fortitude, and their grace.

This multiple exposure was captured in-camera, in a deserted warehouse in France, but it could have been anywhere; the ivy had tenaciously crept through cracks in the glass and grown like a string of hearts, strung up on the wall. Shafts of golden light stood like sentinels, communicating that there is hope and love here. Even in a deserted warehouse.

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