PHOTOGRAPHY
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
The last few days in London have had unprecedented levels of air pollution and smog. Probably the only positive I can glean from smog is its potential aesthetic atmospheric value … here are a couple of a smoggy day in Tel Aviv.
I was walking in St.James’s Park one evening this week .. the light was fading and like everyone else around me I took some pictures of the cherry blossom. One of the images I like best is the one below which I took with my phone. I’ve fiddled with the clarity so that it looks … Read more
I love this stencil graffiti I saw years ago in Venice. I assume the figure on the left is male and adult, running (and leading?) the figure on the right, who I assume to be female … mainly because of a triangle at the side of her head which suggests long hair and a trapezoid … Read more
Tel Aviv is full of vibrant graffiti including striking stencil graffiti and hebrew text. However amongst all of this I started noticing some naive childlike scratchings – a bit like a non-smiley emoticon with or without an armless body – in many locations over the the city. Here are some of them. I also came … Read more
My last post earlier today got me thinking about the “Anna is a victim” message and I connected it to the image below; one of the last images I took on my trip to Israel this week. It was one of many business card-sized images I found strewn on the ground near my hotel in … Read more
My cousin Susi has since solved the mystery for me. The graffiti is basically a Hebrew pun; the question mark symbol asks why? The word for why in Hebrew is lama. This is juxtaposed with a representation of a llama.
I’m off to Tel-Aviv tomorrow for a short holiday; haven’t been since 2008. Here’s one I took back then
