In the 1920s, my grandmother Cecily Nash was briefly engaged to the writer Christopher Marlowe. Their romance was short-lived, ending in a broken engagement, but its traces endure — in an inscribed copy of his book The Fen Country, in family memory, and in the landscape of the English Fens that he loved and described so vividly.
A century later, between 2020 and 2023, I retraced their story with a camera, using Marlowe’s book as a guide. What began as a fragment of family history became a meditation on love, loss, and memory — how decisions echo through generations, and how places can hold the weight of personal and collective histories.
Forelsket (published in 2024 by Another Place Press) reflects on this fragile inheritance: a failed romance in the shadow of war, a landscape haunted by absence, and the enduring search for connection that threads across time.