Marseille: the city of blue, fever and ultras
Postcards from France’s second city, a fascinating mix of immigration, rebellion and football.
City secrets: outsider art and lost rooms
A city of lost rooms: where Jewish scholars vanish, artist seers battle their obsessions and twisted worlds thrive.
Cycling for freedom during coronavirus
During a time of shrunken horizons, cycling is escape and freedom exploring a city of strange wonder.
London plague 1665 vs coronavirus 2020: city lockdown and streets of suffering
We explore more similarities and differences between the coronavirus of 2020 and the plague of 17th century London. City lockdown, silence and noise in the streets, wild rumours and pandemic inequality.
Gods, ruins and street life: photos from 2019
From Kolkata streets to the Shropshire hills, from watching gods to warships: a selection of my photos taken during 2019.
Unbuilt Glasgow: a city nearly lost
Can a city make you sad and die young? Can a city destroy itself? How Glasgow’s unique mysterious curse was born from a city nearly lost.
London, I remember: horses
Once, London was a city of horses. Humans lived cheek by jowl with the 300,000 horses of cabmen, traders, laundrymen, grocers and rag-and-bone men. You can see the traces of that time everywhere: old stone drinking troughs, hidden cobbled mews, mounting blocks, slips and ramps.
Finding our ghosts: at a Victorian séance
Finding ghosts and spirits at a Victorian séance in one of Britian’s oldest music halls.
Nightwalking, Junkfood Junction and the future King of Scotland
Nightwalking’s early subversive reputation, a night stroll down Junkfood Junction and meeting the future King of Scotland.
New Year / Old Year: Remains of an abandoned industrial estate
Urban exploration: wandering the remains of an abandoned industrial estate in search of graffiti art.
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