Jonathan Andrew is originally from Manchester in the UK but now lives and works in the city of Amsterdam for over 20 years. He is an award winning location photographer with many years of experience. In his career he has worked for National Geographic and other Dutch magazines.

Next to his assignments he likes to pursue personal projects and travels to places like the Faroe Islands, Sweden and Scotland to work on his landscape photography. He is currently photographing ruined WW2 defences as part of an on going personal project.

Among the subjects of photographs by Jonathan Andrew there are the bunkers of the Atlantic Wall and the line of fortifications that Adolf Hitler had built along the shores of the Atlantic.

It was the haunting geometry of abandoned military bunkers that interested Jonathan Andrew. 

“At first I found attractive the geometry and shape of these structures (…) It was as if they were still on guard, and no one had told him that the war was over” –  Jonathan Andrew

Scattered throughout the Dutch landscape, he was fascinated by their shapes born out of functionality. After photographing a few of them he started searching for others during his free time.

These photographs were all taken at dusk, or just after sunset, because according to the photographer, the light of day would have flattened the photos. 

“By lighting them with a flash I could really pick out the shape and 3D forms of the structures,”

“After shooting the first four bunkers with this technique, I realised that the lighting seemed to fit the subject matter very well, almost as if they are lit by a large searchlight. It seems to add to the already haunting atmosphere that the structures have.”