Slow York

I’ve started up a new web outlet – ‘Slow York’. A Tumblr site about getting lost in York – away from the main tourist ruts. York’s superdense historic core is ringed by leaden encampments of suburban public and private housing. It’s real commerce, like everywhere else, is conducted within earshot of its orbital roads. It’s […]

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Humber Gap

Walk from Ferriby to New Holland via the Humber Bridge Mayday on Holderness Ted Hughes   This evening motherly summer moves in the pond. I look down into the decomposition of leaves – The furnace door whirling with larvae. From Hull’s sunset smudge Humber is melting eastward, my south skyline: A loaded single vein, it […]

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Ten days in Ukraine

  Photo story of ten days in Ukraine featuring pickpockets in Odesa, the hypnotic escalators of the Kiev Metro, the lost cosmopolitanism of Chernivitsi, and the bleak backstory of Uman. And overall – way too much Soviet Realism

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