Behind The Photograph: Planes and Surfaces, Burano, Venice.
What looks at first like a picture of three flat facades slowly becomes something else...
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Behind The Photograph: A Decisive Moment at Barnstaple
There is an element of chance in photography that no amount of preparation can control.
Behind The Photograph: Evensong at Lichfield Cathedral
We don't need to have professional equipment with us to capture an emotion - sometimes worlds align, atmospheres become visible and we just have to record it from our perspective.
Behind The Photograph: Winter at Cowside, Yorkshire.
The house is not simply there to be looked at, but something we feel ourselves moving towards.
Behind The Photograph: The remarkable roof at Carlisle Cathedral
A different viewpoint does more than show us something new. It dismantles what we thought we already knew.
Behind The Photograph: Beverley Minster Sunrise.
It isn't just one photo - but a set of photos that took around ten years to make. I'd always wanted to get the shot, but the clouds had their part to play in stopping me from getting the ultimate photograph. These images are my most published....
Behind The Photograph: The Value of Light Upon A Facade
We imagine that a camera records what is there. But perhaps it also records the conditions under which something finally became visible to us.
📍Loci: A Long Answer in a Short-Form World: What a Keyholder Taught Me About Language
Language is more powerful than we think. We need it to gloss the world and all those in it. A vibrant, imaginative and descriptive language is the glue that holds us together.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 7 Aug 2026
I feel as though I’m in a kind of dystopian bubble of my own making - an aberration in the continuum, as though I’ve slipped into the square from another century, carrying some obsolete way of looking at the world.