The word Liminal means to be at or on both sides of a boundary, it refers to the beginning or start of a process. Liminal spaces are there to be moved through, like train stations and airports, they are not destinations of their own, they're the start of a journey that will take us somewhere else.

Spaces are often shaped by and also reflect the people who inhabit them. These photographs of church buildings in Northern Ireland look at the people who shaped them. A people who are part British and part Irish, yet not wholly either.
Liminal places are moved through on the way to somewhere else, a train station for example isn’t a destination but a place that allows us to transition to the next stage of our journey. So here we have church buildings that are a kind of liminal space, existing only to be moved through on a spiritual journey. They were created to be ignored, appearing almost uncomfortable to be given attention.
In these images we have a people who are caught between two identities appearing sure of where they came from but less confident of where they are. Here we take time to look at those liminal buildings that, like the people who use them, seem to ask not to be looked at.

“Protestant churches are very famous for being plain, cold and boring and they’re designed that way because the theology is that nothing should distract you from your journey to encounter God – and that was the idea behind Liminal.
So basically, I’m photographing the people, my culture, Protestants in Ireland but I’m not showing the people.
I thought it would be more interesting to photograph the marks that people leave and the buildings that people use and see if that shows their personality.”
I found it immensely hard because photographers need a thing – you can’t photograph nothing.” - Stephen Wilson