PHOTOGRAPHY
It’s been a few months since my last post on London’s Afro Cuban Music Night and I’ve wanted to do a piece highlighting images of dance. The following three photographs allude to dance using fragmentation – parts of the body to suggest the whole. The dancer is an Italian called Cesare. In the photo below … Read more
I wanted to write something about how art history is evident not just in the interiors of museums and churches in Venice but has a certain visibility as you walk around its streets and squares. This is in the form of reproductions of painting. I realised that I was concurrently taking pictures of contemporary street art … Read more
A few days ago I went for a walk to Swains Lane in Highgate to take take some pictures and try out my new camera lens. It was a lovely autumnal day. On the way back I saw a woman leaning against a tree waiting for the bus. Her hat caught my eye, a warm … Read more
Coming from London where religion, when visible, tends to be multi faith, I’m struck by the abundance of Catholic imagery and iconography when visiting Italy, and how this imagery coexists with other signs and visual expression. As a young teenager I developed a love of art history and associated images of the Madonna as something … Read more
I’ve just started reading Confabulations by John Berger, who died earlier in January this year. Recently I’ve been reading almost exclusively on my Kindle (in a space-saving Marie Kondo-like spirit) but I decided to buy a hard copy of the book – it’s small, portable with a good-sized font, and illustrated with colour photographs and … Read more
Here are a few pictures I took at yesterday’s Women’s March on London, one of a series of international marches in solidarity with those marching in Washington D.C. for human rights and equality, on the day following Donald Trump’s inauguration as US President. As I set out for the march on my local bus, this mother … Read more
This week I’ve been thinking a lot about warning signs and particularly signs of danger and our relationship to these signs. Which signs do I notice or pay attention to? This has come about for a couple of reasons. A few days ago a good friend remarked she was surprised that I didn’t include any … Read more
Here’s a picture I took recently in London. I like the mix; icons of high culture juxtaposed with a current symbol of global popular culture:
I took this abstract the other day; I was drawn to the blue arrow but also liked the painterly splatters, the reflected facades and the streak of text: Here are some other pictures I’ve taken featuring arrows and directions: So on average, it seems like we’re supposed to be going right … But don’t … Read more
Yesterday I came across this “before and after” advert promoting a hair procedure to smooth out frizz. The assumption is that the left hand side – the more matt, frizzy, untamed side is undesirable, and the right hand side is the object of desire. Having “embraced” my naturally curly and sometimes wildly frizzy hair (especially … Read more