Andy Hawthorne Andy Hawthorne
June 5th, 2025

The Photography Thing

Photography
St Ives, Cornwall

Welcome, readers, to the pixelated playground of my photography! 

Here, I point my camera at places and spaces—sometimes empty, sometimes full, but always suspiciously standing still. My lens is a nosy neighbour, peering at car parks, concrete corners, and the odd lamppost with the curiosity of a cat at a fishmonger’s window.

Inspired by the New Topographics movement (which is not, as my Aunt Mabel thought, a new brand of breakfast cereal), I seek the poetry in pylons, the drama in drainage ditches, and the romance in retail parks. If you like your landscapes less “rolling hills” and more “parking lot existentialism,” you’re in the right place.

So, dust off your sense of wonder, adjust your spectacles, and join me as we celebrate the beauty of the banal. After all, even a skip can be a masterpiece—if you squint hard enough.

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