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?
An Anxiety of Memberships
Creating a membership scheme is probably the hardest thing I've ever done..
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Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: In Pursuit of Spring
By the end of this journey - what will it know of me?
📍Loci: ✨ Where Meaning Takes Form: How Tragedy Turned to Hope in a Single Building
"The peeling paint, the muted colours and the rusting iron is no more. Here time’s cataract has been removed, and I’m seeing a building as the Victorians first saw it. "
📍Loci: The Transformative Power of Light 🪄 ✨ 🏛️ 📸
Across a building extruded from the Triassic and Jurassic this isn't just a parable of faith, but also the story of the cosmos itself and our part in it.
📝 Field Notes from my Camper-van-camino: Hadrian's Wall and Kirkoswald
Two or three auxiliary soldiers lived and sheltered within this space. I imagine their conversations tucked around each stone like mortar: love-stories coursing through the mortar joints, comedy springing from the castellation and tragedy lurking in the quoins.
📍Loci: ✨Northumbrian Light
Each week I send out a short, fresh reflection from the road – photographs, sketches, and observations from old places that still have something to teach us. What follows is a moment from those travels. Northumbrian Light The forecast was good and so the shoot was on. I arrived at the...
📝 Field Notes from my Camper-van-camino: The Churches of Romney Marsh
I stand and watch the Kentish rag rise up from the dull nights refrain and prick out lines and glyphs that are older than the church itself.