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Photographic Threads

Photographs that found a story.

Another way of telling

Every photograph in this archive is an original image taken by Andrea Morel over the years. These are not stock images or photographs collected from the web: they belong to his personal archive.

Here, photography is not decoration. An image can remain simply an image, or it can open a memory, a place, a sensation and sometimes a story.

The photographs may be revisited, but the subject and intention of the original shot remain intact. Beneath each image there is a place and year, a short interpretation and, when there is a natural connection, a link to the article that continues the story.

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View of the River Wey in Guildford at sunset, with an iron bridge, a central lamp post, bare trees, golden reflections on the water and paving stones in shadow.

Photograph 008 · Original Archive · River Wey, Guildford · 24 December 2025

Between one bank and the other

Some places ask nothing of us, and that is precisely why they manage to hold us.

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Two blurred figures on a beach in Procida facing a bright sea

Photograph 007 · Original Archive · Procida · 2009

Two figures

Not everything that happens between two people needs to be explained.

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Sant'Agata de' Goti at night, with stone houses illuminated along the cliff

Photograph 006 · Original Archive · Sant'Agata de' Goti · 2000

Sant'Agata at night

Some places seem to remember even when we have stopped doing so.

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Illuminated laundry suspended between buildings in Naples' Quartieri Spagnoli at night

Photograph 005 · Original Archive · Naples · Quartieri Spagnoli · 2010

Laundry

Sometimes a city tells its story without showing a face.

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A frost-covered lifebuoy beside the water in Stockholm, lit by golden morning light

Photograph 004 · Original Archive · Stockholm · February 2011

Asking for help

We can be saved. But sometimes, first, we have to find a way to ask for help.

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Intense sunlight through silhouetted palm trees in Santo Domingo

Photograph 003 · Original Archive · Santo Domingo · 2019

Where the light ends

Light does not erase the shadow. The shadow is what allows it to exist.

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A seated statue on the rocks at Folkestone looking out towards the sea and horizon at sunset

Photograph 002 · Original Archive · Folkestone · June 2017

The other side of the coast

Solitude can also mean looking towards the horizon without ever quite giving up the thought that one day you might begin again.

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Longridge Road in London at dusk, with a wet pavement and glowing street lamps

Photograph 001 · Original Archive · London · September 2013

Longridge Road

The street of my first home in London. For many people, home is a destination; for me it has almost always been a starting point.

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