Field Notes From My Camper-Van-Camino
Photography, art, travel tips, routes and ideas from the road less travelled
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest
Weekly essays, photography and art exploring the spirit of place in historic Britain, revealing hidden heritage, remarkable architecture and richer ways of navigating our fast-changing world.
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📝 Field Notes from my Camper-van-camino: The Most Impactful Monuments I Have Photographed.
A list of the most impactful monuments in my career as a photographer for your delectation and delight - and perhaps for you to visit one day this year?
📍Loci: Feeling like an imposter in Wheathampstead
I feel so guilty because being here doesn’t feel like work. It’s a joy to be in such a special place watching dedicated and talented people take care of something that means so much to the local community.
☀️ Eustace Collection: More Than Just a Monument
And then there’s Marta herself, and Ryan and Deb. At times, when I was photographing them, I lowered my lens and forgot my work for a while, in awe at the respect, reverence and devotion they had for the monument; for they know, that it is far greater than the sum of its parts.
📝 Field Notes from my Camper-van-camino: Malmesbury in Wiltshire
Malmesbury is famously the burial site of the first king of all England: Aethelstan.
📍Loci: Time Portal: The Porch at Malmesbury Abbey
The light is storyboarding the building and unravelling the beliefs, hopes and fears of the medieval mind by pricking out the small medallions and their contents within.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 21 Aug 26
Along Scotland Lane I feel it first - a kind of mizzle that comes not in great drops, but as something akin to stardust hovering just above the surface of things and then descending in soft ribbons of gossamer.
In Pursuit of Spring 🌱
An epic road trip from the north of Scotland to the tip of Cornwall.
Through The Lens
Take the road less travelled
Behind The Photograph Discovery Page
Behind The Photograph champions photography as an antidote to our disposable visual culture.
Behind The Photograph: Cheesden Lumb Mill
I've often argued that surviving structures like Cheesden Lumb Mill are rarer than a medieval cathedral..
Behind The Photograph: C7th Wall, All Saints Brixworth.
This photograph pulls together several disparate forces: Roman material, medieval making, natural pattern, human touch and the psychological pull of a doorway.
Behind The Photograph: Awakening at St. Denis, Paris
The photograph not only captures a view of architecture that is significant, but also the moment the photographer inhabits it.
Behind The Photograph: Fingers of Light at Ripon Cathedral
I was so focused on getting the shot that I didn't feel the red hot radiator pipe beneath my shin until after the exposure.
Behind The Photograph: The Minstrels at Selby Abbey
The minstrel appears to gaze out across the city while we stand beside it. For a moment we share its viewpoint. We are no longer simply looking at the abbey; we are heavenly minstrels too.
Behind The Photograph: in the steps of Edwin Smith
I went away from Didmarton with a new and profound understanding of space and light but I also held a nagging feeling that there was something left unfinished.
Behind The Photograph: Planes and Surfaces, Burano, Venice.
What looks at first like a picture of three flat facades slowly becomes something else...