Photographer Siân Davey transformed her garden into a sanctuary where everyone had a place. As the flowers bloomed, she called people in.
Over three years, British photographer Siân Davey transformed an abandoned patch behind her house into a garden filled with flowers, insects and birds. With her son Luke, she researched and sourced native seeds, paying special attention to biodiversity.
“The vision was to make the garden so astonishingly and crazily beautiful that people would just want to come, that we wouldn’t have to personally invite them.”
And come they did. Couples, friends, outsiders, anarchists, the heartbroken and the lonely were all drawn by the color and life on the other side of the garden wall.
Nature disarms us, Davey says. The garden became a safe space “full of possibility” in which people could “be who they are” in front of her lens. The resulting series, simply called The Garden, is enthralling.
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