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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Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 10 July 2026
Chesterton once wrote that the object of travel is to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land. I don’t think I understood what he meant until I turned into Hornpot Lane.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 3 July 2026
After some time I feel like an imposter. I’ve spent far too long here, so I plough on through the rest of the building without a planned break. After completion, I sign out and step back into the great walled city of York.
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📍Loci: Hebden Bridge and the Forgotten Language of Place
Places that are rich in semantics are fertile ground for reinforcing community and helping it navigate the present.
📍Loci: The Rollright Stones: Finding Sanctuary in an Age of Distraction
There’s nobody else here, so I pull the camera from my bag and start to take some photographs, until I’m shuttered by an overwhelming feeling to strip back - to remove the paraphernalia of modernity.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 26 June 2026
There is something fitting about encountering a timepiece at a threshold. Before I have even entered the church, I am being reminded that churches are places shaped by passage through time..