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.
Andy Marshall
Architectural Photographer in a time-travelling camper van. 📸🚐🏛️ Architecture, Travel, History, Place, Material Culture.
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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..
❄️ ➡️ 🌱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: The Volute and the Cobbled Floor
Chipping Campden’s buildings betray a tantalising glimpse of the hopes, trials and tribulations of a single community throughout the growth of the town.
📍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: Andy Marshall's Golden Light Digest.
After spending prolonged days wrestling with the light through my viewfinder, I’ve experienced a kind of photo-serotonin effect, as if a transfusion has taken place resulting in an inner glow, unable to stop chattering; a feeling of being baptised with the splendour of it.
📍Loci: Buildings Speak? Yes They Do.
If ever there is an argument for a building that might dispel the disbelief of a radio jock, then it is the Beauchamp Chapel at St. Mary's in Warwick.