Photography

Roses in the city

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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

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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”

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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