Richard Heeps Anita Lady Fen Wenley Cambridge Car Award Postcard

POAP18 This is a specialist modern postcard by Richard Heeps and was the photo Richard used for victory at the London Photographers Charity Awards with details on reverse unused and mint.

In the late nineteen-sixties, my father used to drive the whole family to the Fens north of Cambridge every Sunday afternoon. These outings in the car became a pilgrimage of sorts: a journey to another land. There was no direction or intent to the different routes that we journeyed along, we were simply responding to the landscape; exploring what seemed exciting at the moment.

We called these weekly excursions Fen Hunting as we noticed over time a wide variety of unusual landscape features. We were looking for things that broke the vast horizon: the shrinkage of Fenland peat and Bog Oaks, scarecrows, and the subsidence of houses cracking and exposing the foundations.

While the Fens may have changed over the years, my own experience of them has been one of unbroken continuity. I have been, and still am, exploring the unique fabric of the place from within the Car with Wings