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.
2400 subscribers join me on my camper-van-camino through the British Isles. Each Friday I post out a digest recording my discoveries in my time-travelling camper van.
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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: 3 April 2026
So here, in one place, we find layers of meaning and layers of firsts: movement, industry, politics, science, architecture and belief, all tied, in some way, to this ground. There’s no city like this - every layer of soil put down here is the first in the journey towards the modern world.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 27 March 2026
What is being gathered here is not just material, but understanding. That we are shaped by these places, as much as we shape them.
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📍Loci: ✨1620 And The Year Of Paradox
My camera is taking me beyond the threshold of time into the twill and texture of material that has been fashioned by human hands.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 20 March 26
Again there came an unfurling and opening up that comes with looking into another creature’s eye - but this time it was with a building.
At The Turning of The Light - Fresh Horizons, Ways of Coping
This first member-shaped journey confirmed something important to me - that slower, deliberate journeys of this kind are worth making space for.