mannequins
Over the years I’ve taken lots of pictures of mannequins. I know it’s a theme that’s been done brilliantly in the past … know one can beat Atget! But here are a few of my own:
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frizz pics
Yesterday I came across this “before and after” advert promoting a hair procedure to smooth out frizz. The assumption is that the left hand side – the more matt, frizzy, untamed side is undesirable, and the right hand side is the object of desire. Having “embraced” my naturally curly and sometimes wildly frizzy hair (especially … Read more
Blossom/sakura
I was walking in St.James’s Park one evening this week .. the light was fading and like everyone else around me I took some pictures of the cherry blossom. One of the images I like best is the one below which I took with my phone. I’ve fiddled with the clarity so that it looks … 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
Purim & Fancy dress photos from my archives
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
before the gig
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 …
Monitor shots
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
10 years today: RIP Ben Aminoff
My dad died 10 years ago today. Here’s a photo I took of him circa 1980 … his weekly ritual of washing the car!