He is a English photographer from Manchester but now has been living in Amsterdam for 20 years. Andrew is specified in location photography and has previously worked for National Geographic, shooting travel features, as well as outdoor stories for magazines and just personal landscape photography. The project of his that am interested in is called ‘World War II Relics’ in which he has traveled to France, Belgium, Netherlands and Scotland to photograph what remains of the bunkers of war and other fortifications remained abandoned after the last world war. The famous bunkers of the ‘Atlantic Wall’ were featured in the project, which was the line of fortifications that Hitler had built along the shores of the Atlantic, from the Pyrenees to Norway. All photographs were all taken at dusk, or a few moments after sunset, because according to the author, the light of day would have flattened the photos. The project has created much interest in the international press and has featured in ‘The Daily Mail’, ‘Wired Magazine’, ‘Creative Review’ and numerous blogs and websites. I was honoured to be a guest lecturer at the ‘Willem De Koning Acadamy’ in Rotterdam, teaching landscape photography to 2nd and 3rd year students. He captured how the bunkers had been adapted to modern day life, for instance some of them bear marks of graffiti; others, have been converted into livestock barns by local farmers. The ones located near the sea are being used as diving platforms.

“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