Finding Light’s Mission
My name is Brad Carr. For many years, I have felt a deep calling to reintroduce people to the deepest parts of themselves; to provide a safe space for all sides of the human being to emerge; to help humanity on its collective pursuit of healing through creative alchemy and transmutation; and to empower individuals on the journey to unearth their innate creative power.
In answer to my soul’s calling, I launched Finding Light in 2025 to help as many people as possible on their journey to remembering their deepest and truest nature.
It was born from my deepest sensitivity and empathy towards the human experience. My worldview was shaped by episodes of domestic abuse and violence. These experiences overshadow the first eleven years of my life and have left an eternal mark on my heart. I have found peace, purpose, and acceptance through my interactions with Nature over the past seven years, using photography and creative writing as instruments for deep healing, sacred remembrance, and spiritual and psychological transformation.
I am not the same person I was when I stepped outside into the natural world in 2018, and now I exist to help others on their own transformative journeys towards their full creative expression of Self.
‘‘Nature is, and always will be, our greatest guide and teacher. Nature is the gateway to divine knowledge and the pathway back to our souls. Nature binds and unites us all, and it is imperative, I believe, that every man and woman goes out in search of, and drinks from, Mother Nature’s infinite spring; filling their hearts cup during such a fragile period of life.’’
- Brad Carr
Our History
Finding Light was established in 2025 by landscape and nature photographer, author, and creative practitioner Brad Carr. After establishing himself among the UK’s leading landscape and Nature photographers with multiple publications in leading international magazines and his solo exhibition in Wales’ oldest gallery, Plas Glyn y Weddw, Brad answered his soul’s deeper calling and began turning his wider vision for humanity into reality.
Feeling a purpose that stretched far beyond equipping people with the skills to use a camera and ‘see’ photographs in the landscape, Brad felt like his purpose was to aid with work that ran much deeper through the veins of the collective of humanity and beyond. This became clear in his creative essay, Learning to See Again, which was published in On Landscape in 2024.
In 2023, Brad met his now-partner, Darcia, for the first time. It was immediately clear to both that they had met for a great purpose, although it was not yet clear what that purpose was. Intuition had brought them together, and it is intuition that has led Darcia to become a part of the greater vision for Finding Light. Her role as facilitator, wisdom-keeper, and seer in the dark is vital for the future of Finding Light.
Our Core Values
Looking Inwards: We see every person as a mirror that can point us towards our growth and expansion, recognising that every encounter is an invitation to look inwards. We are both the teacher and the student.
Creativity as a Practice: We believe creativity is not just art—it’s a form of being; of connection, ritual, and true expression. Whether with a camera, a journal, or a spoken truth, creativity is how we remember who, or what, we truly are.
Radical Honesty and Truth: We hold space for people to meet themselves fully. This means embracing the truth in its raw, messy, or beautiful form as a source of clarity and a gateway for transformation.
Sharing Wisdom from Lived Experience: To improve the lives of other people through deep listening, understanding, compassion, observation, and grounded spiritual and creative education.
Living in Service to the Spirit of Nature: We honour Nature as sacred and divine, recognising that we are a part of Nature and not separate from it. Our work is our devotion—offering our creativity, presence, and care in service to the spirit which transcends the ego. We always respect and revere. We always tread lightly. We always strive to give back more than we take.
Seeing the Sacred in All Things: The Celts believe that the sacred is in everything and has no physical boundaries. The sacred is found in Nature, which means it’s in the individual, too, and we strive to see that divinity in everyone and everything we encounter.
An Inclusive, Courageous Community: We cultivate spaces where everyone feels safe to show up as they are—no matter what age, race, religion, or experience. Vulnerability is welcomed and never judged. Our community is built upon respect and reverence for the spirit that flows through all beings.
‘‘The trees have played the role of best friend, father, and therapist, and the branches have untangled the knots within my mind, helping me to make sense of who I am, or, perhaps, ‘what’ I am, because, with every walk outdoors, I become a little more like the trees that I choose to connect with.
The trees—and landscape as a whole—have provided me with a non-judgmental safe space to simply ‘be’. Mother Nature has accepted me wholly, as I am, and that all-accepting, unconditional love is something that I have been able to take out into the world and offer to other people. It makes me wonder what the world might look like if we all worked to develop a deeper level of self-love and self-acceptance through creativity and our interactions with the natural world.’’