Loath as I am to share a J Harris article (an anti Corbyn courtier in 2027 /19), this is all true... As well as being a professional photographer, I also lead a trust that saved, refurbished and now runs a youth club in S E London: www.groveparkyouthclub.co.uk

Catch me in the @theguardian.com today, on the history of high-rise housing. We need to remove the distorting goggles of prejudice in order to understand Britain’s extraordinary high-rise heritage. Consider looking up afresh! www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

My next @opencity tour of Canary Wharf and East India is Saturday 18th October. Booking and details here: open-city.org.uk/events/c-wha...

The revolutionary new MULTIDECK… Thanks to the Bristol Post for this scan of an ad for the opening of Bristol’s iconic Rupert St car park. Due to be demolished for a couple more unimaginative boxes of student accommodation. More photos here: www.eberlin.co.uk/buildings/ru...

I firmly oppose the government’s plans for compulsory digital ID cards. This is an affront to our civil liberties, and will make the lives of minorities even more difficult and dangerous. It is excessive state interference — and must be resisted.

Life Is Brutal

It’s a very rainy Sunday evening so why not cheer yourself up with a visit to our fab little bookstore & stock up on some photographic inspiration! Go here and see what we’ve got: www.photobookjunkies.com/products Speedy UK delivery! 📦 ✨

Thank you to @willjennings.bsky.social for reviewing my new photo book @recessedspace.bsky.social - I am most grateful for his appreciation of my narrative throughout the book, an architecture photo book with a difference... recessed.space/00285-Robert... Please take look here:

"Provision, Architecture of the Post-War Consensus" chapter one; Housing. Available now directly from photographer: stayfreepublishing.co.uk For more info, see latest review here: recessed.space/00285-Robert...

"Provision, Architecture of the Post-War Consensus" chapter one; Housing. Available now directly from photographer: stayfreepublishing.co.uk For more info, see latest review here: recessed.space/00285-Robert...

New on Substack, my post on Balfron Tower - the experience of its residents and its controversial sell-off and renovation (The images below from 2011 and 2024 show how radically it was butchered.) It's now a hard-to-let block in the private rental sector. municipaldreams.substack.com/p/balfron-to...

If anybody wants to commission me, I'm open. I thought that after five years of chasing, pitching & hassling for countless £100-200 gigs, which take a tonne of work, I may get better public or private commissions & offers coming my way. But, my £600 income this summer suggests not.

Worship 4 #1964 East Kilbride “The epic scale of this book is as awe-inspiring as the buildings. All are accompanied by minimal - yet informative - captions and fascinating contextual quotations from the likes of #JonathanMeades, #JohnGrindrod and Elaine Harwood.” C20 Mag, Gareth Gardner

💥 At 11am this morning the 8 cooling towers at Cottam Power Station will be demolished, after looming large over the Nottinghamshire landscape for more than 50 years. Do you believe we should preserve a set of Britain’s fast vanishing cooling towers? ✍🏼 Sign the petition here: chng.it/ZqW2PZfRGj

Worship 4 #1964 East Kilbride “The epic scale of this book is as awe-inspiring as the buildings. All are accompanied by minimal - yet informative - captions and fascinating contextual quotations from the likes of #JonathanMeades, #JohnGrindrod and Elaine Harwood.” C20 Mag, Gareth Gardner

Another great review of my book can be found here: recessed.space/00285-Robert... Thank you @willjennings.bsky.social @recessedspace.bsky.social for an insightful reflection on the themes running through the images and texts

Another great review of my book can be found here: recessed.space/00285-Robert... Thank you @willjennings.bsky.social @recessedspace.bsky.social for an insightful reflection on the themes running through the images and texts

New on Substack, the Watling Estate: ‘Building the new England’. It questions why a sometimes demonised, sometimes romanticised working class is so continually subject to middle-class judgement, whether liberal or conservative. It's one of my favourites. municipaldreams.substack.com/p/the-watlin...

Thank you to @willjennings.bsky.social for reviewing my new photo book @recessedspace.bsky.social - I am most grateful for his appreciation of my narrative throughout the book, an architecture photo book with a difference... recessed.space/00285-Robert... Please take look here:

I've now included 3 add-ons to the Kickstarter so it's a way you can increase your support if you wish, whilst getting something extra for it! Signed copies of Travelogue 2 and The Last Stand, and of course the print of Bluebird the sheep. shorturl.at/MgbKh

Two concerned citizens are arrested as terrorists, and put in handcuffs, for the heinous crime of holding up cardboard signs opposing the genocide in Gaza. Meanwhile the Israeli government starves the people of Gaza to death, and uses their children as target practice, with total impunity.

Civic 9 #1971 Aldersbrook, London City of London New Crematorium E G Chandler www.robclayton.co.uk/Provision/th... From my new book, “Provision, Architecture of the Post-war Consensus”. A visual journey through the 1950 to 1979 period of British modernist architecture.

A celebration of post-war utopian architecture for the people in a new book from photographer @robclayton.bsky.social recessed.space/00285-Robert...

A woman weeps over the genocide in Gaza as she waits to be arrested as a terrorist for holding up a piece of cardboard. Parliament Square today.

Our New Album is out today. We don’t romanticise Brutalism. We recognise it. theblackdog.bandcamp.com/album/my-bru...

The Chemosphere House, 1960 Designed by John Lautner

Well this is good news

When the media are freaking out about “out of control spending” they are lying to your faces. Welfare isn’t “spending”, either. It’s an investment. ALL of that money goes back into the economy. Money leaves our economy when we let the rich hoard it & refuse to tax giant foreign companies properly.

Great book!

Wow, this is quite an insight into the malaise of our government.

Or buy from me directly at www.stayfreepublishing.co.uk www.waterstones.com/book/provisi...

Civic 9 #1971 Aldersbrook, London City of London New Crematorium E G Chandler www.robclayton.co.uk/Provision/th... From my new book, “Provision, Architecture of the Post-war Consensus”. A visual journey through the 1950 to 1979 period of British modernist architecture.

If pointing at interesting buildings is your thing, am going to be doing a walking tour of Finsbury and Clerkenwell with Mike Althorpe, the London Ambler. www.faber.co.uk/product/word...

Pleasure to chat with the Holy Trinity of Gary at Glastonbury ✨

unitednationsofphotography.com/2025/06/25/p... this week's photography for the ears...

Hypocrisy here is off the scale. Tell me again how many hospitals Israel has bombed in Gaza? www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9...

Coming up on the recessed.space substack we have exclusive interviews with Mike Nelson, Lauren Bon, Richard Wright, Jeremy Deller & Louis Pohl. But only for those who pay the small fee to support independent writing! recessedspace.substack.com

The media is bending over backwards to humanise the man who mowed down 79 people at Liverpool’s parade. His company’s Twitter account follows Nigel Farage, Elon Musk and Andrew Tate. That tells you everything you need to know.

Or buy from me directly at www.stayfreepublishing.co.uk www.waterstones.com/book/provisi...

Will be posting a new episode of Monstrosities Mon Amour this week. If you’ve missed any of the others they’re all here, like a basket of kittens with a flat roof podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...

my @theguardian.com piece on how regeneration is sterilizing the city and driving children and families out: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Delighted to see my new photo book, “Provision, Architecture of the Post-War Settlement” reviewed in the latest glorious @c20society Magazine out now. The book is available now from this online store: www.stayfreepublishing.co.uk

Delighted to see my new photo book, “Provision, Architecture of the Post-War Settlement” reviewed in the latest glorious @c20society Magazine out now. The book is available now from this online store: www.stayfreepublishing.co.uk

Features include a conservation case study on the revival of Seifert's Space (House) Odyssey, Wish You Were Here with @seasideferry.bsky.social and her collection of vintage seaside postcards...

Wonderful day at Photo London. Come say hello in the Publishers section to me and my colleagues at The Photobook Club Collective

So honoured to have my book "Provision, Architecture of the Post-War Consensus" at @photolondonfair @somersethouse with all these amazingly talented photographers from @thephotobookclubcollective. Come and have a look at all these gorgeous books at booth P06. I'll be there in person, Sunday 18th May