In this self-initiated project, I set myself the brief of creating a photography publication about witches, a book i titled "the arcane" meaning understood by few; mysterious or secret.

This publication consisted of 4 photos, with extracts of books from across history that mention or discuss witches and witchcraft. For me, this project was an attempt to better understand the obscure history of witches and witch-hunting, which is steeped in harrowing and disturbing truth.

From my findings, witches were merely a scapegoat for the tragedies that occurred during the middle-ages such as famine, disease and untimely death. At an attempt for control and understanding, many people blamed individuals who may have been different to some extent as performing witchcraft to conjure these afflictions, when in truth, it was merely a natural, albeit hard, part of life.