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Selected Work — 37 photographs

Architecture

Bridges, cloisters and rooflines — the built world holding its shape while the light moves around it.

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Stone street in Pompeii with Vesuvius in the background — Pompeii, Italy The road that outlived its city

Baroque cathedral tower in Salamanca seen from below — Salamanca, Spain Looking up from the cloister

Old wooden shutter and window lit by warm afternoon light, Florence — Florence, Italy The hour the light turns honey

Cloister arches framing a bright, cloud-streaked sky, Florence — Florence, Italy A square of borrowed sky

Salamanca skyline at dusk with cathedral towers and a lit carousel — Salamanca, Spain When the lamps take over

Ruins of the forum at Pompeii with visitors walking through — Pompeii, Italy Where the city gathered

Ponte Vecchio and its reflection in the calm Arno at golden hour, Florence — Florence, Italy The old bridge, doubled in the Arno

Liberty Bridge over the Danube with sightseeing boats passing beneath, Budapest — Budapest, Hungary Two boats, one bridge, the Danube between

Panorama of Viterbo with a domed church, umbrella pines and a green park under a blue sky — Viterbo, Italy Viterbo keeps its dome to the sky

Paris rooftops stretching to the horizon under an overcast sky with a red crane, Paris — Paris, France Zinc to the horizon

Gilded bronze sculptures on the Pont Alexandre III against a grey sky, Paris — Paris, France Gilded against the grey

Silhouetted spires and flags of Krakow's old defences against a blue dusk sky, Poland — Kraków, Poland Spires cut from the sky

Castle Square in Warsaw with Sigismund's Column, Christmas decorations and a decorated tree, December — Warsaw, Poland Christmas at Castle Square

Illuminated lattice arch bridges reflected in the Vistula river at night, Kraków — Kraków, Poland Iron over the Vistula

Two marble statues on carved brackets against the wall of Milan Cathedral, one inverted, with hard shadows — Milan, Italy The Duomo's cast

The Gothic spires and pinnacles of Milan Cathedral rising against a blue sky with light clouds — Milan, Italy A forest in marble

Looking straight up at the ornate crossing dome and ribbed vaults of Salamanca's New Cathedral — Salamanca, Spain The stone iris

Symmetrical stone bay windows with leaded panes on an Oxford college facade — Oxford, England Keeping rank

A gondola with passengers crossing the Grand Canal among water taxis and work boats, Venice — Venice, Italy The canal's errands

The Grand Canal waterfront by Venice's railway station with ornate lampposts, the Scalzi bridge and a green church dome — Venice, Italy Arrivals

A weathered Venetian palazzo facade with arched windows and peeling plaster rising from canal water — Venice, Italy To the waterline

View down the Grand Canal from the Accademia bridge toward the domes of Santa Maria della Salute in winter haze, Venice — Venice, Italy Toward the Salute

The British Museum Great Court's glass lattice roof casting diagonal shadows on the curved Reading Room wall — London, England The lattice prints itself

Tower Bridge over the Thames with kayakers paddling in the foreground under a cloudy blue sky, London — London, England Holding its pose

A Ryanair jet on approach passing behind a ruined Roman brick arch against blue sky, Rome — Rome, Italy Both on approach

A stone portal silhouetted from below with a sunstar breaking over its carved pediment, Atri — Atri, Italy Crowned at noon

The full circle of the London Eye against blue sky and clouds with County Hall beside it — London, England Counting clouds

Southwark Bridge crossing the Thames with Tower Bridge and the city skyline behind, London — London, England Green and gold

The west front of St Paul's Cathedral with its two towers and clock against deep blue sky, London — London, England The west front

Looking up at the curved upper arches and corbels of the Colosseum against deep blue sky, Rome — Rome, Italy Still standing guard

Golden evening light striking an arched doorway inside a dark stone fort casemate with a grass courtyard beyond, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka The chosen arch

Weathered wooden door panels with an iron lion-head knocker and ring, Palermo — Palermo, Italy Lion on duty

Sunlit apartment facade with rows of balconies, shutters and air conditioners, Palermo — Palermo, Italy Applied evenly

Half-timbered gabled houses and a church spire around the Römerberg square at dusk with crowds, Frankfurt — Frankfurt, Germany Römerberg, last light

White chalk cliffs and a coastal town seen across a wide bay, with wind turbines on the hill behind, Dieppe — Dieppe, France Chalk face, rooftops, turbines

Rows of skulls above a carved stone plaque bearing a nineteenth-century French inscription, Paris Catacombs — Paris, France The ossuary's epitaph

White modernist sculptural installation with carved symbols and mathematical notation, overlooking a hilltop town with castle, clear blue sky — Almonaster, Spain The symbol-keepers

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