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I walk back over to the Boothby chapel and strip away the scaffolding of names and dates and dynasties. I stop photographing monuments and begin photographing people...
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📍Loci: Looking Through Hockney's Eyes
Here in Paris, with his work all around me, I feel the cataracts of modern life thinning and, for a moment, the light streams in just as it did through the curved glass of my Grandad’s Beetle window, heading east into the promise of Yorkshire.
Andy Marshall's Mini-Camino's - Learning to see again
A journey from darkness, through photography and light, towards a way of noticing that no longer needs a camera.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 29 May 2026
What struck me walking through Louth was how much cohesion is embedded within these surfaces. The town feels less designed and more incremental - shaped gradually through negotiation between utility, beauty, repair and inheritance.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 22 May 2026
For a moment, the world stopped feeling closed to me. The contract with the present felt renewed. And I found myself thinking - with unusual clarity - that I will never give up on this world while places like this, and the people capable of making them, still exist within it.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 15 May 2026
As I follow each cursive curve and incision, I begin to sense the song of the person who etched it into the metal surface. The plate ceases to be an artefact pinned beneath history and becomes something warmer and more immediate
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What is the Genius Loci Digest?
Finding richer ways of navigating a changing world through the collective memory and wisdom held in Britain's historic places. On the surface, the Genius Loci Digest follows me, architectural photographer, artist and writer Andy Marshall, as I travel through Britain in Woody, my camper van. Each week, I...
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 8 May 2026
I imagine all those characters, words and sentences made coherent, ordered into patterns that move the soul, create a mystery, or reveal a hidden truth. I think of the time span that they all encompass - from the first burst of the universe to the first man on the moon.
