About Me - Learning To See Again
For over twenty years I've been seeking out alternative stories in our surviving material culture and sharing them with my photographs and words.
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From Breakdown to New Vocation: My Genius Loci Digest Journey
In the late 1990's I had a breakdown that ultimately led me, through a journey that took me away from depression, to a new career in photography. But what was the spark that ignited my journey?
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❄️ ➡️ 🌱As the Year Turns – What Lies Ahead
The Digest has always been about helping us navigate - ways of anchoring ourselves amidst the complexity and flux of a new world order.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 19 Dec 2025
Welcome to the final Digest of 2025! ✨The Genius Loci Digest will be back again on the 9th January✨ Coming next year: In Pursuit of Spring Next year I’ll be travelling the full length of Britain - from John O’Groats to Land’s End - following the season’...
📍Loci: Breaking The Frame: How a Single Photograph Became a Threshold.
And perhaps this is where the photograph does its best work. Not in what it contains, but in what it releases.
📍Loci: Voices From The Past At Hillesden.
I’m reminded of the thrill of the mudlarker and the detectorist when they find treasure; but surely these are greater finds?
📍Loci: For Books' Sake
..but, for me, on the dust spectrum - book dust comes only second to fairy dust.
📍Loci: A Grain of Sand.
Like the imprint of sand left behind by the receding tide, our absence etches patterns of meaning that linger long after we’re gone.