About the Genius Loci Digest
For over twenty years I've been seeking out alternative stories in our surviving material culture and sharing them with my photographs and words.
Architectural Photographer in a time-travelling camper van. 📸🚐🏛️ Architecture, Travel, History, Place, Material Culture.
For over twenty years I've been seeking out alternative stories in our surviving material culture and sharing them with my photographs and words.
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?
Creating a membership scheme is probably the hardest thing I've ever done..
Deeper dives into place and people for Members Only
And so, in a café in Howden, through the portal of the final page of my little black sketchbook, I begin to see the world as it truly is.
There’s a quote by Pablo Neruda that illustrates how I feel: “There is another reality, the genuine one, which we lose sight of. This other reality is always sending us hints, which without art, we can’t receive.”
Remarkably, the church has survived largely unaltered through the centuries, making it one of England’s finest Norman churches and a rare window into medieval ecclesiastical design.
Remarkably, the church has survived largely unaltered through the centuries, making it one of England’s finest Norman churches and a rare window into medieval ecclesiastical design.
The light is a blessing today, John - the magnificent and ruinous east end is rising above the rooftops.