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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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Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 17 January, 2025
Their survival would articulate a faith in the long view; it would signal that we still have the capacity to consider future generations, even when we are not here to witness the fruits of our labour.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 10 Jan 2025
After we discovered the WWI graffiti we headed back down to the nave in a kind of torch driven half-light. When we reached the bottom of the stairs in the nave, John tapped me on the shoulder and told me a secret.
Be there: Amongst the angels at St. Wendreda, March, Cambridgeshire.
The roof features 120 angels alongside 19 canopied depictions of saints and martyrs. The intricate woodwork was crafted by the Rollesbury brothers in Bacton, Norfolk, between 1523 and 1526.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 3 Jan 2025
My photography helped me become a sculptor of light after being plunged into darkness by depression and my camera taught me how to see.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 27 Dec 2024
The church lies deep within the bucolic landscape of a glacial valley, rising from the flat valley floor like an erratic, shaped by history, circumstance, and time.