Jane Liechty Photography

My Cambridge

I lived in Cambridge, UK, twice — once as a student in 1996 and once as an adult in 2022. These photographs, made over a five-year span, look beyond tourist clichés to a richer, personal connection. Selected photographs from a larger body of work, destined for a book.

A punt on the River Cam, seen through blurred railings
Punting on the River Cam, as seen from St John’s Bridge of Sighs
Organ and fan vaulting, King’s College Chapel
King’s College Chapel Interior
Doorway at Trinity College, Cambridge
Whewell’s Court, Trinity College
Weathered stone face set in a mossy brick wall above moored punts, Cambridge
Ode to Benedict Spinola
The River Cam frozen over between snowy banks, with punts moored in the distance, Cambridge
The Frozen River Cam
Looking down a stone spiral staircase with a curving handrail, Great St Mary’s Church, Cambridge
Spiral Staircase, Great St Mary’s Church
The Reality Checkpoint lamp post on a frosty Parker’s Piece, Cambridge, with a passer-by
Reality Checkpoint, Parker’s Piece
Blue door, St Edward’s Passage, Cambridge
Blue Door, St Edward’s Passage
Close-up of a carved stone lion with red eyes, Bateman Street, Cambridge
Bateman Street Lions
Rosehips before a flint Norman church wall
Outside the Leper Chapel
Bricked-up doorway beneath a carved “The Old Granary” lintel, Cambridge
The Old Granary Door
Shop window of Cambridge rowing clothing with an oar, a teddy bear and a rowing-crew poster
Cambridge Blue, Ryder and Amies
The Corpus Clock at night, Corpus Christi College
Corpus Clock at Night
Carved oak ceiling panel with Tudor roses
Cipher to Anne Boleyn (“Regina Anna, Sovereign”), King’s College Chapel
Wartime airmen’s graffiti burned into the ceiling of The Eagle pub, Cambridge
World War II Graffiti, The Eagle
A row of marble busts in a panelled gallery
William Pitt Sr bust, Fitzwilliam Museum
Painted heraldic ceiling of Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge, seen from below
Trinity College Chapel Ceiling
A tiny door in a Cambridge wall as a passerby strides past
10 Downing Street Dinky Door
Clipped yew topiary in Second Court, Jesus College, Cambridge
Jesus College Second Court
Painted crowned figure holding a scroll on a roof corbel, St Bene’t’s Church, Cambridge
Corbel, St Bene’t’s Church
Rood with crucifix, Mary and John beneath the chancel arch and painted Last Judgement, Church of Our Lady and the English Martyrs, Cambridge
The Church of Our Lady of the Assumption and the English Martyrs