ANDREW GIBSON
I was invited back to the Blackpool Geographic Association this week to give them another photography talk and chose this time to present Disappearing Britain - my take on the changing socio...
Read MoreAs a heritage photographer I'm constantly looking at the buildings of the past and despairing over the uninspiring state of their present day equivalent. Grand old hospitals were designed lik...
Read MoreWelcome to 2019, a year that I entered into by driving to the Lake District in the dark to shoot its first sunrise. The resulting image is above - though that's far from the vision I had when...
Read MoreI had a few plans lined up for my week in Scotland, hoping to take advantage of the autumn colours by going up in mid-October rather than the usual November. The weather however had other plan...
Read MoreNine years ago this weekend I ventured in to the former North Wales Hospital, the first of what would be four visits in the intervening decade. I'd always been curious about places like this a...
Read MoreThe great thing about the Heritage Open Days is that you can sometimes get to see the places... that you can't otherwise easily sneak into for a look round yourself. And Chatterley Whitfield C...
Read MoreI'm conscious of re-shooting a scene when I don't feel it can be improved upon, and I don't think I've even attempted this one since I shot it after dusk five years ago. On this occasion thoug...
Read MoreThere's a saying in life, that if you don't know where you're going you'll end up somewhere else. That's never resonated more than when I drove in to Redcar this week. I hadn't really planned ...
Read MoreNo one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that human affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of space... And yet, across the gulf of space, minds immea...
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