XFM Top 1000 Tunes

I’ve been writing music reviews for a forthcoming book: The XFM Top 1000 Tunes of All Time. Apart from being another branch to my polymath/indecisive portfolio, it was a great opportunity to rediscover some classics: Bran Van 3000, Hard-Fi, the Stereo MCs and Patti Smith, among many others.

Death and the Burger

"Halfway down Talaa Kebira, another sheep is parked, tied to a breezeblock while its new owner gets a haircut." Sheep slaughter, food and festivities in Fes's medina - my column in today's Independent looks at life in [...]

Marrakech and Essaouira

My current project is a new book on Marrakech, Essaouira and the Atlas for Footprint. I just spent two weeks out there finding some new places, taking photos and meeting some great people. I stayed in [...]

Footprint Umbria & Marche

For four months in summer and autumn 2008 I explored the piazzas, museums, bars, Roman remains and cookery schools in central Italy, photographing and writing a new book for Footprint, which is now available. There is a [...]

Independent column

I recently had a column in the Saturday Independent Travel magazine. You can read it on their website, or download a PDF. The piece looks at Umbria's relation to landscape, religion and (a certain disrespect for) authority. [...]

Rome

At the end of 2008 I spent two months in Rome writing and photographing the city for the new Footprint Rome guide, which uses many of my photos. There's a web album of pictures from my [...]

Catalyst

I designed, set up and managed the website for Catalyst Magazine. Run by the Commission for Racial Equality, the magazine was semi-independent and commissioned external writers and illustrators to look critically at issues of race, identity [...]