rss feedburnerThis site is a mix of photography and comment on architecture, churches and London primarily. The posts fall into those three categories and below you’ll find a bit of introduction explaining why I’m blogging on these subjects. At the end of each of the intros is a link to the posts in each category. Please feel free to comment on any aspects or to point me in the direction of other interesting things.
LONDONER’S DIARY
Between 2002 and 2008 I produced something called the Londoner’s Diary. I had worked on several guides to the city before this time and producing a London-specific diary with photographs and anecdotes about various curiosities seemed like a good way to round up some of the information I’d picked up along the way but which couldn’t be included within the strictures of a normal guidebook. Because of the increasingly maddening machinations of the book trade (I foolishly thought that things would become easier year on year) I stopped producing the diary in 2009. Several kind people have asked whether I would start it up again. Although I have no plans to do so, I can at least post here a few of the better entries from the diary’s seven years. I didn’t archive the project at all well, so there is no particular order to the posts, but they will appear as and when I come across the images.
>> Go to the Londoner’s Diary posts
CHURCHES
Between summer 2010 and spring 2011, I did a series of shoots for a revision of John Betjeman’s classic guide to England’s – and, since the update, Britain’s – churches. This concentrated period of regional trips to some of our most fascinating churches opened up my mind to what they offer as a way of exploring Britain.
Our churches are an amazing repository for the architectural, historical and cultural traces of the land and its people. They mix high art and folk art, bear the scars of conflicts, changes of doctrine and of stylistic taste, and are mostly built with local materials and building methods – stone quarried from the landscape in which the buildings stand. No museum comes as close to reflecting the lived history of Britain over the last thousand years as do the churches when looked at en masse.
ARCHITECTURE
This is simply a place for occasional postings of photographs and musings on aspects of architecture in its widest context.
Such a treat to see excerpts from the Londoner’s Diary- lots more please!
Wow such hard work and commitment here, DAD!
yes this is your daughter Minna inspecting your website and it’s fantastic.
hello my name is senuri I think your website is great. By the way I am a professional photographer.
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Prank!!! Minna told me 2 do it!
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