A Year in the life: 29 June 2022
"Before it reaches its location an Oyster Catcher angles in from the west and nudges the bottom of the drone. Instantly it starts to tumble."
a year in the life
A Year in the life of an architectural photographer in his time-travelling camper van. Start reading from the bottom of this page.
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A Year in the life: 26 June 2022
Stonehenge is just one element in a larger web of places that live beyond their physical presence. Think of Glastonbury Tor, The Shambles, York and Sutton Hoo.
A Year in the life: 8 June 2022
I’m fascinated by the stuff. Etched within and without the officious walls of our churches are the whispers of ordinary people that found a way of making their mark without others seeing.
A Year in the life: 24 May 2022
Instantly the animal is alive - its head is a blintering mass of moving light which spills out onto the column behind, begetting the head with a sparkling, animated body.
A Year in the Life: 18 May 2022
The raking light points out the details: sparkling gobs of ironstone, brick purple-pink impurities, spiralling Fibonacci fossils, flint as black as a rook’s eye. As I walk along the wall towards the former abbey church I spot odd circular pieces of stone.
A Year in the Life: 14 May 2022
"I look at the buildings along the street - all the facades that we’ve come to know over the years have completely gone - erased."
A Year in the Life: 25 April 2022
I feel exposed. I want to be in the thick of wattle and daub and hand made clay brick.
A Year in the Life: 17 April 2022
Laithe, henge and church. I can’t help but think that these standing stones are of equal measure.
A Year in the Life: 13 April 2022
Somebody has made noble the mundane brick and jammed its magic into artifice. Beyond the styling, the bricks are defined by their texture and hue.