PHOTOGRAPHY
Here are a couple of images I took this week that feature mannequins. The male mannequin shot looks like a composite photo but it isn’t (I don’t superimpose or manipulate images in that way) and was taken in Golders Green, with the railway bridge reflected. The image below was taken on The Strand; I like the … Read more
I’m off to a gig in Mornington Crescent this evening. Last year I came across this graffiti on the way to Mornington Crescent just off Camden High Street; to me it sums up a type of jokey witticism that is manifested in the Yiddish “Chochmah”, derived from the Hebrew for wisdom. This is chochmah NW1 … Read more
The other day I attended the exhibition opening and book launch of Voices and Images from the Banlieue, organised by Banlieue Network. The exhibition runs until May 1 at the Glass Tank Gallery, Oxford Brookes, Oxford. I’m a contributing artist to the project. Here’s some information about it from the Oxford Brookes University site, followed … Read more
The last few days in London have had unprecedented levels of air pollution and smog. Probably the only positive I can glean from smog is its potential aesthetic atmospheric value … here are a couple of a smoggy day in Tel Aviv.
I’ve just had a “facial” for the first time in several years and whilst I was semi-conscious from relaxation I remembered Susan, a Hungarian beautician and my first leg waxer! I think I took this photo of her in the late 1980s.
Saw this graffiti in Soho a few months ago … I’ve cropped it square so it could make an ‘alternative’ mother’s day cd album cover, rather than the usual pink florals and cuddly toy imagery! It’s a day late … well, better late than never.
I posted the other day about mannequins – I’m intrigued by their surreal, ambiguous quality. Child mannequins are often particularly “strange”. Here’s one I took today; it (I’m uncertain about its intended age and gender) struck me as odd partly because of the false eyelashes and closed mouth grin: The next two were taken in … Read more
