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  1. Revisiting portrait images

    I was scrolling through older folders recently and stopped on this raw file. A portrait taken in Rome. I have looked at it dozens of times over the years but never actually sat down to edit it. I am almost glad I waited.There is something interesting about looking at a…

  2. The Barbican Centre

    The Barbican Centre in London stands as a monumental testament to Brutalist architecture — divisive, complex, and undeniably captivating. More than a performing arts centre, it is a city within a city. A concrete labyrinth that continues to spark debate and inspire genuine awe.I visited last summer as part of…

  3. Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana

    Rome, the Eternal City, is a living museum. While most visitors head straight for the Colosseum or the Pantheon, a different kind of architectural marvel stands quietly in the EUR district — the Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana. For a photographer, it is one of the most compelling structures in the…

  4. Santa Maria Maggiore Tuscania

    Tuscania sits in the province of Viterbo in northern Lazio — a small, ancient town that most visitors to Rome never reach. I visited during my years living there, drawn partly by the architecture and partly by something older. The Etruscans have always fascinated me. Their origins, their influence on…

  5. Street seller

    Trastevere at midday. The neighbourhood is at full volume — tables spilling onto the cobbles, people eating, talking, moving. The kind of busy that makes you invisible if you know how to use it.I was shooting with a Canon 5D Mark IV and a 24-105mm lens — a combination that…

  6. Arlington House Margate

    Arlington House is impossible to ignore on the Margate skyline. Thirty storeys of white concrete rising above the seafront, angular, bold, and showing its age. For a photographer drawn to Brutalist architecture and the poetry of decay, it is an obvious subject. I didn’t need much more reason than that.It…

  7. Casa Sperimentale

    Casa Sperimentale sits in the pine woods of Fregene, a coastal town in the province of Rome. From the road it is almost invisible — overgrown, fenced off, forgotten. I had read about it, tracked it down, and when I got there the only way in was over the fence…

  8. Castel di Tora and lake Turano

    Castel di Tora sits on a rocky spur above Lake Turano in the province of Rieti, central Lazio — one of those places in Italy that exists entirely outside the tourist circuit. No coach parties. No gift shops. Just narrow medieval alleys, old stone houses, and one of the most…

  9. Trevi fountain

    There are not many days that Rome doesn’t feature in my mind in some form. I lived just outside the city for a number of years, and the effect it has on you is permanent. You leave with a connection that doesn’t fade — a heartfelt pull to return that…

  10. Classical Italian architecture in Tuscania Lazio

    There is a particular quality to the light in Tuscania in late summer, just before the evening arrives. It caresses the stone buildings in warm amber, and the long shadows that follow usher in the end of the day with a kind of ceremony. The history, the light, the smells…
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