Guy Sargent photographs both landscape and architecture using a large format camera--an Ebony 5x4. He used to be a full-time carpenter. But after buying a camera and securing six weeks off work to tour around Ireland taking photographs, he never returned to carpentry. He runs a blog.

Sargent says that 'Ireland is full of grottos - niches in rock walls filled with Jesus figures - and I would pass this one every day, on my way to shoot a beach. He adds that:

My holidays have always been to coastal areas, so the series started with coastal photographs. Initially it was just an emotional response to what I was seeing, but after a while I realised there's quite a deep meaning, a theme to it all; time passes, but with landscapes, nothing really changes except the man-made monuments we put on them.

The other part of the What Lies Beneath the Surface is architectural:

Much of Guy Sargent’s architectural work is inspired by European history and it has a time line over the centuries, from the Gothic architecture of the 13th century to contemporary architecture such as the Mercedes-Benz museum in Stuttgart.

I am much taken by Sargent's view of London, given my work on the Adelaide book. This is a personal view that emerges out of walking around this global city and enjoying the architecture and history that London is so rich in.