Philip Butler ARPS is a Worcestershire-based photographer focusing primarily on documenting the remains of Great Britain’s inter-war architecture.
“I’m fascinated in this bold, but all-too-brief, period of architectural innovation. Amongst these now ageing structures lie what is left of the country’s first steps into the Modernist and Art Deco movements. Often in need of sympathetic renovation, occasionally on the brink of demolition, but increasingly seen as important pieces of our built heritage, I have been capturing what is left of yesterday’s futuristic creations in the Twenty-First Century”.
Philip’s photographs have been published nationally and internationally both online and in print.
He has had two books published by renowned London art-book imprint FUEL - ‘226 Garages and Services Stations’ (2025) and ‘London Tube Stations 1924-1961’ with writer and historian Joshua Abbott (2023).
His debut book ‘Odeon Relics : Nineteen-Thirties Icons in the Twenty-First Century’, was self-published on Philip’s own ADM imprint in 2019 after a successful crowd-funding campaign.
Philip also contributed an image to late-Elaine Harwood’s indespensible book Art Deco Britain published by Batsford.
Previous Features
2025
Pump it up! The UK’s most glorious garages – in pictures - The Guardian
The Other Stations - Interview on The Beauty of Transport
On the road again - review of 226 on Wallpaper*
2023
‘The stories behind the world’s greatest railway stations’ on Financial Times (online and print)
‘London Tube Stations’ book review on Wallpaper*
2022
‘Milk & Modernism - The Rise and Fall of the Torrington Creamery’ (words and photos) on Art Deco Society UK
‘Tube Station Anthology’ on Londonist
2021
‘Cinematic Decline’ on Mnngful Stories
One Image series ‘Dying Currency’ on Ffoton
2020
‘Odeon Relics’ in The Modernist 37 ‘Kino’
Interview on The Pictorial List
‘Small Hours’ on The Pictorial List
Former Odeon, Leicester - shot of the month in Digital Camera Magazine #233
Interview for Issue_7 Photo London Special Edition
Harris Brush Factory in The Modernist 34 Juxtaposition
2019
‘Odeon Relics’ in La Vanguardia Sunday Magazine - December 29th 2019
‘Odeon Relics’ in RPS Journal (159/12 - Dec 2019)
‘Odeon Relics’ on The Guardian
Eltham Palace (words and photos) for Art Deco Society UK
‘Odeon Relics’ on Creative Boom
BBC Antiques Roadtrip talking about my photography - Spring 2019