PHOTOGRAPHY
Mish Aminoff 
Last week I was in New York for a few days staying on the Lower East Side. The weather was quite unsettled – muggy and rainy. One grey morning I saw a guy walking towards me in sandals and socks. These were not the frowned-upon socks and sandals combination formerly attributed to unstylish men with … Read more
The other day I went to The Barbican and walking down a side street near Moorgate I saw the sky and clouds mirrored in a glass-fronted building. Later, on examining the image I also saw a face in the centre of the image, with arched white wispy eyebrows and a round mane of hair framing … Read more
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
Yesterday on my way home I saw a leafy tree reflected in a scooter’s wing mirror. I liked the surreal, abstract quality of this image of my neighbourhood street so I stopped to try and capture what I saw with my iPhone: I started recalling other images I’d taken involving vehicle mirrors and remembered a … Read more
I have been adding text and photos to my ongoing project entitled Persian Kentish Town which is a personal take on street photography highlighting the decorative facades, pavements, reflections and illusions of Highgate Road in Kentish Town. The photographs in the project all include oriental carpet imagery. I’ve supplied some background information as to what I understand … Read more
It’s now been 18 months since I started the Changing Views Project. The view is one I see from my kitchen window, and looks out towards Kentish Town and the city beyond. The first image from the project was taken at midday on October 15, 2016. Here it is below: The most recent image was … Read more
Tree goddesses are usually associated with antiquity and are represented in a variety of cultures, for example Celtic tree deities, dryads in Greek mythology and Kodama – Japanese spirits that inhabit trees. I’ve previously drawn together some images of People in Trees featuring actual people sitting in trees. This collection is different. I’ve noticed the juxtaposition of … Read more
Weather-wise It’s been a cold March and miserable, rainy and dull early April. I can hear the wind howl as I write this post. This was the scene on a waterlogged Parliament Hill, Hampstead Heath on April 1st : The following photograph looks as if it were taken in black and white – it was … Read more
Yesterday The London Lucumi Choir, of which I am a long-time member, went to Birmingham to sing at the Faiths in Tune finale at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. Here are a few photos I took. On the way up on the train I sat next to Tamara, a relatively new member, and a … Read more
I’ve always loved earrings. I feel like I’ve forgotten something if I go out without earrings, as if I’m not fully dressed, so tend to wear some form of ear embellishment every day even if it is just tiny studs. I was only allowed to pierce my ears when I was well into my teens … Read more