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.