PHOTOGRAPHY
Today is the Jewish festival of Purim which has origins in Persia. I always liked this festival as it is traditionally celebrated by dressing up and eating special foods. Plus my grandparents were all Persian Jews so there was an added connection. In the first photo I am (second from the right) dressed up as … 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
I took this one yesterday evening by Central St.Martins Art College, on the way to performing with The London Lucumi Choir as part of a Ghost Hostings performance evening. I like the painterly, impressionist feel …
Over the years I’ve taken a lot of screen shots. I teach film studies and sometimes a particular image from a film strikes me and I want to ponder it … freeze its otherwise transient flow. I watch a lot of foreign language film and sometimes it’s the juxtaposition of subtitle and image that I … Read more
I spent the weekend up in Preston and Manchester, visiting Longridge, Goosnargh (I like the name!) and Knowle Green. Here are a couple of images I took over the weekend. They both contain moss and were taken in the region but otherwise they are very different! The text on the memorial struck both me and … Read more
My dad died 10 years ago today. Here’s a photo I took of him circa 1980 … his weekly ritual of washing the car!
Came across this bound object at the North Finchley recycling dump today … it’s funny how thousands of formerly cherished and costly items are discarded yet this (with its added halloween face) was “saved” and displayed.
I sing with the amazing London Lucumi Choir, led by Daniela Rosselson de Armas. We sing songs from various Afro-Cuban genres, accompanied by percussion. Today’s percussionists were Collette Boardman, Bill Bland and Dave Pattman.
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
