THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

Levi Presley was a photographer from Fryup who took hundreds of Polaroids of his friends in the remote Fryup forest during the early 1990s.  Despite initial acclaim – Time magazine hailed his work for “freezing a moment in time”,  Presley subsequently withdrew all his photographs from public view.  His friend and frequent muse, Heather Moreland, claimed that Presley, unable or unwilling to destroy them, instead chose to bury them at an unknown location in Fryup forest.  Presley was the subject of a documentary film, Finding Levi, about his life and work.