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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: 25 April 2025
With the full day ahead of me – and feeling like a lord and master over time – I visit all my usual haunts: breakfast at the Naked Man, a browse through the bookshop on the market square, coffee at the Folly on the hill.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 18 April 2025
I’ve photographed many projects where artists, artisans and conservators have helped restore—and sometimes transform—the memory of an age, an epithet, a story, a turning point, through a building, a memorial or a piece of art.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 11 April 2025
Despite the epic scale of the moorland, it is the smallest thing - a chapel - that animates the landscape.
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Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 4 April 2025
And then, without warning - a chiaroscuro. The landscape delivers its crescendo: the spire of the Marble Church piercing the firmament from a brace of gargoyles, that project above a dip in the distant Clwydian hills.
Aerial Video Biddlestone Chapel, Northumberland
A Roman Catholic chapel at Biddlestone, built atop a medieval pele tower.