TITLE: English Medieval Cathedrals

This portfolio pays homage to the great English medieval cathedrals, one of the finest achievements of English architecture.

Because of their chequered history of semi-continuous building and rebuilding, they exhibit a wide variety of architectural styles, evolution and implementation, from early Norman through to Late Gothic – both within one building as well as between them – providing great scope for innovation and excitement in the creation of space and vision.

I’m engrossed by the imagination and skills of those who conceived and built them, the awe-inspiring scale and the interactions between form and function at a human level, as well as a sense of the faith and divine purpose for which they were created. It’s these elements that I’m attempting to capture in my photographs -- structures that signal strength and purpose, beauty and majesty, elegance and grace, exuberance and awe, intimacy and reflection – demonstrating such a magnificent variety of form for common functions.

AUTHOR: John Eaton (United States)