PHOTOGRAPHY
I was looking through my photos of a California road trip taken earlier this year and came across this image of a lifeguard hut on Santa Barbara beach: I started thinking about other palm tree imagery I’ve photographed; not in saturated Ibizan sunsets but palm trees in more monochromatic settings. I looked back through my … Read more
Today is the last day of the Jewish festival of light, Chanukah, (sometimes spelled Hannukah) which lasts 8 days and which this year coincided with Christmas. The Hebrew calendar is based on lunar cycles, so the dates of festivals vary slightly each year against the Gregorian calendar. The picture below is a scanned photograph of … Read more
I’ve been away on holiday and will post a few images from my trip soon. In the meantime here’s an image I took yesterday whilst walking in Hampstead. I think it has a surreal, Magritte-like feel:
Saw this today; also noticed that the Latin text to the right of the figure says “perdidi diem” which translates as “I have lost the day”.
saw this the other day … i’ve taken several variations of it – here’s the black and white version:
The other day I came across the controversial image of the Angel of the North sculpture with the baguette projected onto it as part of a supermarket advertising campaign. I found the image striking, surreal and sacrilegious… I must have been thinking about it as I came across one of my “objet trouvé” compositions also … Read more
Here are some photos I’ve taken that combine graffiti or advertising imagery with an outdoor natural setting. The faces all have striking blue or green eyes. The first two images were shot in Ibiza: A surreal distortion – I think I saw this in London’s Westbourne Grove during carnival: The photo below was taken … Read more
Here are a couple of images I took this week that feature mannequins. The male mannequin shot looks like a composite photo but it isn’t (I don’t superimpose or manipulate images in that way) and was taken in Golders Green, with the railway bridge reflected. The image below was taken on The Strand; I like the … Read more
I posted the other day about mannequins – I’m intrigued by their surreal, ambiguous quality. Child mannequins are often particularly “strange”. Here’s one I took today; it (I’m uncertain about its intended age and gender) struck me as odd partly because of the false eyelashes and closed mouth grin: The next two were taken in … Read more
