Notes

A running sketchbook — newest first.
2026 Jan 18 Jan
A wet platform at dusk, the far end lost to vapour.

The 6.14 to nowhere in particular. Mist took the far end of the platform before it took the near.

Three the same and not the same — she turned a half-degree between each.

2025 Dec 28 Dec
A lit window across a courtyard, no one in it.

A lit window, no one in it, kept on for whom.

Essay

On the patience of platforms

An empty concourse under a vaulted roof.

A station teaches a particular kind of waiting — not idleness, not quite hope, but a stillness that keeps one eye on the board. I have been photographing that look for years without naming it, and lately I think it is the closest thing I have to a subject.

Snow beginning over a canal at night.

First snow over the canal — it didn't settle, but the night held its breath for it.

2025 Nov 21 Nov

Before, and a moment after.

Bare tree against a pale, vapour-lit sky.

Twilight, the mercury kind — the other sort of streetlamp.

2007 Dec 23 Dec
Essay

Fugitive Spaces

Coaling cranes loom over black water in fog on the working Thames.

A morning's wandering on the working Thames at East Greenwich, two days before Christmas — somewhere between witness and trespass.