Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 12 April 2024
It’s difficult to explain, but my eyes seem to act like cruise missiles - spotting a potential target and then locking onto the detail.
ways of seeing
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. What made all the grit of the dark days worthwhile was that I was left with something that felt like a pearl - a new way of seeing and interacting with things - more sensual, emotive and visual. These posts explore different ways of seeing and experiencing our world.
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Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 5 April 2024
In the hope that they help others unburden and renew as much as they have for me it gives me the greatest pleasure to present - in the spirit of Hokusai - my Thirty Six Views of Beverley Minster.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 22 March 2024
What I’d discovered was the source of my creativity, my leitmotif, my creative colostrum.
☀️ Eustace Collection: Pie and Pudding People
We must cherish and protect these places as if our lives were etched upon it.
☀️ Eustace Collection: People Like Us
Churches remind us of how normal people like us relentlessly hacked, carved, forged, daubed, etched and wove our way out of the unremitting labyrinth of threats to the human condition.
☀️ Eustace Collection: The Face
There is a face peeping out from behind the flaking limewash.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 29 Dec 2023
The photographs act like wormholes into the time they were taken, and are often the instigators of the stories that I tell within this digest; but more than that, amidst bouts of punishing low self-esteem, they remind me that I’m not an imposter, that I’m worthy of the places I photograph.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 15 Dec 2023
" ...there are magical places, curated by our forebears, that allow us to escape feudal time, to bathe in an alternative chronology."
☀️ Eustace Collection: Hadrian's Wall
As I cycle along the wall, I take in each stone as ballast.