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?
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Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 9 January 2026
It began with a visit to Lastingham in October last year. Since then, there has been a growing awareness of the spirit and art of place - not only to steady us, but to generate an overwhelming sense of hope and direction.
❄️ ➡️ 🌱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.