It was as simple as ‘get to the top of Finland and turn left’.  At least that is…

Iceland. Never has the essence of a country so closely resembled the way in which I see the…

There are times when writing about memories from as far back as my eighteenth year feels wrong. How…

The Rooftop Collective exhibition edition VI Tempus Fugit. So they say. Here we are again, another Rooftop Collective…

I stood knee deep in the water and prayed. Prayed. If ever a word had connotations, it’s ‘prayed’.…

India 20-03-11: We crossed a bridge. It was a railway bridge, with a small walkway to the side…

I have often wondered what it was in particular that attracted me to photography. What it was that…

India 19-03-11: It was just a sensation at first, a feeling that something was missing, something you couldn’t…

The Michaelhouse Centre, Cambridge: Last week I popped up to Cambridge to have another look at the gallery…

Every now and again happy accidents happen. Just back from India, in the middle of developing the negatives,…

Scotland is famous for many wonderful things… Scotland is also famous for it’s midges. I had, of course,…

Written by Jim Shannon for ‘West of the Sun’ and adapted for ‘Skills, Smells and Spells’: Great art…