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An absolute highlight of this summer was getting to spend time @hookepark running a filmmaking mentorship programme with Mr @clickclickjim documenting this years Studio in the Woods.
Working with our gorgeous mentees (2nd slide) @jaimeolivianelson @tongh_97 @mr.hamaniiiii we made a short film - Crossing, Lookout, Horizon that follows the construction of three structures, all built on site in four days by students.
We will be screening the film NEXT FRIDAY 30th OCTOBER at the @lsa_school_architecture, with chat from @piers_taylor_ @gianni_botsford_architects @_baxendale other tutors and myself and our film crew!
23 Oct 2026
On Friday 30th October we will celebrate the 20th anniversary of Studio in The Woods with a special event at @lsofarch, featuring reflections from the founders and past participants, as well as the screening of a beautiful film by @clickclickjim and @nyimamurry.
Book using the link in our bio.
@molearchitects @gianni_botsford_architects @_baxendale @mr._randall_page @linaghotmeh_architecture @root_and_erect @katedarbyarchitects @_thing_studio @fcbstudios @feildenfowles @hookepark @aaschool @niallmclaughlinarchitects @studioweave @rob_fiehn @robert_mull @studio_berman @piers_taylor_
23 Oct 2026
Exciting things afoot in Liverpool as we recreate the creative participatory processes of Riccardo Dalisi in a live project with @ellygoeswest and @riba
Thank you to the wonderful students at @dixonsfazakerleyacademy for being part of this journey.
Photo 1 by the brilliant Peter Landers and Jim Stephenson @landers_photos @clickclickjim
Images 2, 3 and 4 taken by @ellygoeswest of photographs of Dalisi’s workshops with children in Naples in the 1970s from from the Archivio Riccardo Dalisi, MiC – Direzione Generale Archivi, Soprintendenza Archivistica e Bibliografica della Campania
23 Oct 2026
THE SUBURBS! Safe and familiar or a hotbed or intrigue, a breeding ground for drama? At the next edition of @site_and_sound we’re going to explore cinema’s fascination with suburbia with our three amazing guests, @johngrindrod @heyrosiedart @twicelynamed
Join us at @thegardencinema on Weds 21st Oct. Link in bio!
#architecture #cinema #suburbia
18 Oct 2026
In collaboration with @lsofarch and @museumofarchitecture, we will be screening Crossing, Lookout, Horizon, a new film by @clickclickjim and @nyimamurry that has been released to document the 2026 edition of Studio in the Woods, the influential architectural live-build summer school.
This special event, taking place on Friday 30th October, celebrates a milestone 20th anniversary for the pioneering architectural education initiative. The evening will include reflections from past participants, alongside a discussion about the films itself. And drinks!
Grab a ticket at the link in our bio and we hope to see you there.
@invisible_studio @fcbstudios @niallmclaughlinarchitects @studioweave @root_and_erect @feildenfowles @linaghotmeh_architecture @robert_mull @rob_fiehn @mr._randall_page @gianni_botsford_architects @molearchitects @katedarbyarchitects
08 Oct 2026
Everything at Jenners feels deliberate and precise. Everyone’s invested in getting it right and if it’s not right, you do it again until it is.
Each of these stone panels weighs about three tonnes. They’re lifted toward their final location by crane, but then carefully manoeuvred into place by hand. The gaps between the panels have to be spot on. If it’s not in the right place, it goes up in the air and comes back down for another go.
On Monday I shared a first batch of pics from Jenners, where I’m documenting the progress on site. What a commission! Here’s a bunch more photos…
In his studio in Cambridge, Harry works on a replacement sculpture destined for the corner of Princes St and South St David’s St.
Initially he works in clay, before committing the form to stone. He works with life models and even has a surgeon visit to make sure the anatomy is spot on.
Graciela Ainsworth’s team have been working on the existing statues on the facade of Jenners, surveying them all and restoring whenever possible (almost all the statues have been restored rather than remade). This one is covered in a shroud to protect it from dust, until the scaffolding comes down.
Spectrum Stone in the Fens have been working with Stirling Stone to remake the curved balconies, matching to old photos.
Hugo Montgomery have the mammoth task of repairing and restoring the HUNDREDS of casement sash windows at Jenners, one at a time.
New bricks await use inside Jenners.
Marcus of Spectrum Stone checking his work in the curved balconies.
Harry continues his work on the sculpture, now fixed in stone.
Scaffolding stored on site, in the shadows.
26 Aug 2026
Jenners is massive. A massive landmark building in every sense. Almost everyone in Edinburgh (or Scotland even) has a story about the department store on Princes St, that opened in 1838, but it was closed and shuttered six years ago. Bringing it back to like is a mammoth task, but it’s done by hundreds of individual pairs of hands.
For almost a year now I’ve been working with Jenners and the design team to document those pairs of hands across the whole project. For the first time, I can share some of the pics…
In this pic, sculptor Harry Grey works on a recreation of a statue from the outside of the building. The original was too damaged to be restored so Harry is creating a new one based on old photos and his incredible knowledge of anatomy, clay and stone. Scroll for more pics!
The design team of @loadermonteith @3dreiddesign @davidchipperfieldarchitects (and in particular @eireannc_ @c_i_dobson @mjlloader and Joe from DCA) have been a massive help coordinating. Not too mention @grahamgroup_uk for all the help with access.
Incidentally, check out @fredrikfrendin for more (beautiful) pics of the wider building.
#scotland #jenners #edinburgh
Huge stone panels being craned in to place, manoeuvred by hand.
Marcus at Spectrum Stone in his workshop in the Fens, carves the stone balcony pieces for the South St David St and Princes St elevations. Working alongside @stirlingstone, there’s a massive amount of masonry and sculpting going on.
Most of the tools being used by the roofers to refurbish the slate roofs at Jenners are identical to the tools used for the original roof in 1838. Only the PPE has changed!
Deep inside the building, welding is taking place to join old floor plates and structure to new.
Graciela Ainsworth’s team is responsible for much of the conversation work on the original stone facade. Cleaning, repairing.
Just like the slate roofers, much of the tools that sculptor Harry Grey works with are unchanged for centuries, matching the tools the original sculptures were made with.
In Prestwick, @rainbowglass_2001 are glass archaeologists, examining original glazing panels, repairing and in some places, recreating old techniques that
24 Aug 2026
Hello! We’ve reached the fifth and final act. Photographer and film maker @clickclickjim here taking over the Studio in the Woods account, whilst I edit a film @nyimamurry and I made with a group of mentees @jaimeolivianelson @tongh_97 @mr.hamaniiiii about this summers SiTW.
We’ve reached the end of our story, we’ve arrived at Act 5: Denouement. This is where all the loose threads are tied up and our participants return to their homes to find everything as they left it, but themselves changed by their journey over the course of the 5 Acts.
For SiTW this Act begins with guest reviewers arriving to look at each project. Each team discusses with the wider group their project, how the build process went and what they learnt. As in literature, poetry, stage and film, they return to their lives changed by the experience.
Images here are photos if took from SiTW in 2017, 18, 19 and this year, plus some behind the scenes photos from our film making group.
16 Jul 2026
Hello hello. Photographer and film maker @clickclickjim here taking over the Studio in the Woods account, whilst I edit a film @nyimamurry and I made with a group of mentees @tongh_97 @jaimeolivianelson @mr.hamaniiiii about this summers SiTW. Most of the films we make (like most of the stories you’ve read or watched) follow a 3 or 5 act structure and since we’re editing the SiTW film this week, each day I’ve been taking you through SiTW through the lens of a 5 Act Structure.
Yesterday was our story midpoint; Act 3. Where we see our participants deal with mistakes, iteration and contingency and ultimately decide to keep going to our climatic Act 4.
Act 4 is traditionally where the action becomes more comfortable and the story runs (relatively) smoothly to a conclusion. At SiTW our participants have met each other (Act 1), been through and intense period of new experiences and learning (Act 2), weathered some minor crisis (Act 3) and know they can put all that newfound knowledge and expertise into good use to finish their structures in the woods. Typically, from documenting SiTW for over a decade, the energy and atmosphere of this phase is hurried but confident. People who had never used a drill before are now working at pace. The sound of activity runs all through to woods, but it’s a cheerful working. There’s less tension than before (Act 3) and it’s in this state the structures are completed, cheers go up and teams gather to look on their works.
Images here are photos if took from SiTW in 2017, 18, 19 and this year, plus some behind the scenes photos from the film making group @nyimamurry and I were leading,
16 Jul 2026
Hello again, photographer and film maker @clickclickjim here taking you through the 5 Acts of Studio in the Woods this week as I edit the film @nyimamurry and I made at SiTW this summer with our group of mentees, @tongh_97, @jaimeolivianelson and @mr.hamaniiiii
Yesterday’s frenzy of enthusiastic activity in Act 2 has led us to our midpoint; Act 3. In a work of drama the Act 3 midpoint is a point of crisis. Something goes horribly wrong and the whole story is (almost) thrown catastrophically off course. To use Macbeth as an example again, it’s here where Lady Macbeth departs the story and Macbeth is left alone to decide what to do next…
SiTW is not Macbeth, however from my experience of documenting various editions over the last 10 years, around now is where things start to go wrong. That initial bristling enthusiasm has led to mistakes and a rethinking is required.
The beauty of SiTW is that these mistakes (f__ck ups) are welcome and celebrated. Iteration is absolutely critical to the build process and contingency is (usually) built in to each team leader’s plans. This year, one team built a test model of the bridge they were building at Hooke Park. In the yard outside the workshop, they tested the model by loading it up with people. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 <SNAP>. They tested it to failure. The model broke and they had a decision to make - give up or change their plans. That decision defines the story. Do we end here or carry on to Act 4?
Pictured here are teams I’ve documented from 2017, 18, 19 and this year alongside some behind the scenes pics with Nyima and our team of film making mentees.
14 Jul 2026
Hello, photographer and film maker @clickclickjim here taking over the Studio in the Woods account this week whilst I edit a film @nyimamurry and I made about this summers edition with @tongh_97 @jaimeolivianelson @mr.hamaniiiii as part of our film making mentorship. Yesterday I posted about Act 1, where our participants have received their call to action. That inciting incident takes us into Act 2.
In our story telling structure Act 2 traditionally sees a rapid rise in action. For instance in Macbeth, it’s Act 2 where Macbeth kills Banquo and MacDuff decides to rise his own army against him. SiTW is usually far less dramatic. In the forest, our teams enter their first build day with huge enthusiasm. It’s a period of rapid learning, where participants (who, for the most part, have never built anything before) get on the tools for the first time. There’s trials and challenges, but they’re largely approached with energy and enthusiasm. The atmosphere in Act 2 of your typical SiTW is of excitement and bristling activity. A sense that nothing can stop our teams, except for the dreaded Act 3 which I’ll go into tomorrow…
Photos in this section come from SiTW editions I documented in 2017, 2018, 2019 and this year, plus some behind the scenes pics from our filming this year.
14 Jul 2026
Hello! I’m Jim Stephenson (@clickclickjim) a photographer and film maker who specialises in architecture and the way people interact with it. This week I’m editing a film I made about this summer’s Studio in the Woods with @nyimamurry and our group of young film makers as part of a mentorship programme we run (@tongh_97 @jaimeolivianelson @mr.hamaniiiii). I’ve been asked to do a takeover of the SiTW Instagram, so I’ll be posted all this week across this account.
Almost all stories for centuries, whether it’s poetry, prose, cinema or TV broadly follow a three or five act structure. In a three act structure, we discover something new (Act 1), learn about it (Act 2) and assimilate that knowledge (Act 3). That’s an oversimplification of course, but you get the idea - beginning, middle and end. The five act structure is a continuation of this, most famously used by Shakespeare but also Speilberg and countless other story tellers. So, I thought since I’m editing the SiTW film I’d spend the next five days telling the story of it in five acts, using photos and video clips I’ve taken in over a decade of documenting this incredible summer programme of making.
Let’s begin at the beginning. Act 1, which is defined by exposition and culminates in an inciting incident. At SiTW people arrive from all over the country, travelling to the forest, usually without knowing each other. On the first day they’re unsure about what’s going to happen next, and the general campsite atmosphere is a nervous anticipation. There’s no plans, no drawings, just a broad idea to split into teams and build something together. Most people arriving have almost no experience in building, but they’re challenged to do so by short presentations from their team leaders. This is their inciting indecent - a call to adventure, where they cross a threshold. Now there’s no going back.
So, our heros begin their journeys. They’ve crossed the rubicon. Tomorrow I’ll look at Act 2….
My photos in this carousel show these initial encounters at SiTW editions in 2017, 18, 19 and this year plus a behind the scenes pic of @nyimamurry , me and the group of mentees we worked with to make our film this summer.
13 Jul 2026
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