Street Abstracts & Fragmented Representation: Art is all around

This blog features images I’ve shot in the past year that are suggestive of abstract art. The compositions are sightings from the street and from my commutes and travels. These street abstracts all contain faces, sometimes fragmented or with misaligned geometry and remind me of different genres of contemporary art such as Cubism, Surrealism and … Read more

Roses in the city

This blog is devoted to the representation of roses. I’ve encountered roses in a variety of ways in the last few months; these images encompass different genres including documentary, fashion, still life, travel and street photography. Last year I wrote a piece about the Sant Jordi Festival in Girona, a Catalan St. George’s Day celebration … Read more

Representations of Gender, Age and Identity in Graffiti and Illustration

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

Icons and signs: exotic femininity and “others”

The other day I was in a tapas restaurant In London and saw a bottle with a fab label in their fridge. I had to photograph it (the arms are distorted but I wanted to keep the entire fan rather than crop the image) Here’s another sherry gypsy, a bit “Carmenesque”:   The image above … Read more