Jane Liechty Photography

Essays

These are short personal essays about photography. Writing is how I work out what I think.

Ludwig Wittgenstein’s ledger stone, Ascension Parish Burial Ground, Cambridge

On a Cambridge cemetery

Of What We Cannot Speak

November 9, 2026 · 8 min read

In a hidden Cambridge cemetery, you meet the dead the way you’d meet neighbors: first by proximity, then by story.

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The west tower of St Edward King and Martyr, Cambridge

On a Cambridge church

Saint Edward, King and Martyr

November 6, 2026 · 7 min read

Through the viewfinder, the tower is already a fragment. I decide what goes in the frame and what stays out.

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Two children with dripping ice-cream cones on a seaside promenade, by Martin Parr

On Martin Parr

A Different Planet

August 27, 2026 · 6 min read

Most photographers—and most mothers, too—would have wiped the children’s faces and arranged their pose before taking this shot. Not Parr. He wanted the drips.

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