PHOTOGRAPHY
The other day on the underground I saw a woman changing out of her high heels and into her flats: I asked her if I could take a picture and explained that this was part of an ongoing series of images; however in the past it was women getting dressed up for a night … Read more
There’s an exhibition on at the moment at The Photographer’s Gallery in London called Primrose: Early Colour Photography in Russia. Here’s an image from the exhibition. I particularly like the theme – it’s a still of a rumba dance from a 1928 film called Albidum by Alexander Rodchenko. The print is silver gelatin with added … Read more
This woman was changing into heels on Friday night on the corner of Frith Street. it almost looks like two different people but it’s one woman, different shoes: Here’s a photo I took a few years back of a friend of mine changing from her work clothes to her salsa dancing outfit:
Tonight is the eve of the Jewish festival of Passover. Traditionally the first night is marked with a big meal – a Seder – where you recount in a certain order the story of how the children of Israel were liberated from slavery in Egypt (also innocently referred to in the text as the “House … 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
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