Grace and beauty

Grace and beauty

Grace and beauty It’s 7 am and the roads near the airport are full of densely weaving trucks, cars, mopeds, even people on foot – and once in the city itself, the rush hour doesn’t let up all day. There seem to be as many mopeds as people in Hanoi. The sky is dust...
Black Country Echoes

Black Country Echoes

A World That Someone Else Owns Essay commissioned for the Black County Echoes Festival catalogue, a year long celebration of local Post-War manufacturing history, with over a million visitors attending 27 exhibitions and 87 events in 25 Black Country locations. ...
A bit of blarney

A bit of blarney

Found Objects in a Bungalow, County Clare, Ireland Entrance Hallway: Jesus ‘Bless Our House’ key ring holder. Hallway: Container for Holy Water (empty) with image of Pope John XXIII. Bedroom One: Image of Mary, Mother of God, with Sacred Heart; 3D image of Saint...
Julie & Veronica

Julie & Veronica

Julie & Veronica Once, to wander the streets of Venice in the dead of night was to be truly alone. Now, with osterias staying open late for more and more tourists, you may have to be patient, perhaps go to the back of San Pietro di Castello to find all shuttered and...
Keepers of the Light, 2019-20

Keepers of the Light, 2019-20

Keepers of the Light, 2019-20 Book, film, installations The Portland Bill lighthouse is iconic. Operational from 1906, it was equipped with a magnificent First Order catadioptric rotating lens from Chance Brothers of Smethwick, about as far away from the sea as you...