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.
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..
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 10 Jan 2025
After we discovered the WWI graffiti we headed back down to the nave in a kind of torch driven half-light. When we reached the bottom of the stairs in the nave, John tapped me on the shoulder and told me a secret.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 3 Jan 2025
My photography helped me become a sculptor of light after being plunged into darkness by depression and my camera taught me how to see.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 27 Dec 2024
The church lies deep within the bucolic landscape of a glacial valley, rising from the flat valley floor like an erratic, shaped by history, circumstance, and time.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 20 December 2024
The genius of this place is revealed in how its inhabitants shaped the land to serve their needs, while letting the land shape them in return..
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 13 Dec 2024
As I trace the route of the B6318, one of Britain’s most beautiful roads, I come upon the remains of the Roman Temple of Mithras at Brocolitia.