Category Archives: Street Photography

Six Days in Athens 2019

Posted on June 15, 2019 by brianhuman

Thursday 6th June  Awake at six o’clock: blackbird singing; thrum of traffic on Kallirois drifting in; later, bells from nearby St. Panteleimon Ilissos.  Walked up to National Archaeological Museum via:  Hadrian’s Arch and Temple of Olympian Zeus; fine exhibition of … Continue reading →

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Take a Seat – Take a Moment 9

Posted on June 14, 2019 by brianhuman

The subject here is taking a four-fold moment: smoking; reading a letter; finding shade from the sun; and escaping the crowds ticking off the Acropolis on their holiday to-do lists.  Even a tree root provides a comfortable perch under the … Continue reading →

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U3AC Photo Forum 2018-19 21: Alternative Photography

Posted on June 3, 2019 by brianhuman

The session last Friday (a joint effort with Alasdair Hayden-Wright) was an attempt to encourage members to look beyond the safe predictability of digital photography.  The message was: ‘Experiment, play, have fun’.  Central to this was revisiting the analogue world … Continue reading →

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U3AC Photo Forum 2018-19 20: Exhibition 2019

Posted on June 1, 2019 by brianhuman

The U3AC Photo Forum Exhibition (U3AC offices until  21 June) includes 26 photographs by members of the group.  They are drawn from four projects tackled over the year: ‘Patterns’, Reflections’, ‘Song Titles’ and ‘The Other Cambridge’.  Through these topics they … Continue reading →

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Take a Seat – Take a Moment 8

Posted on June 1, 2019 by brianhuman

Working, usually at a laptop, is one of the main occupations of people sitting in public.  And they are most often in cafes where the cost of office space in the price of a cup of coffee, say £3.00 for … Continue reading →

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Take a Seat – Take a Moment 8

Posted on May 14, 2019 by brianhuman

Choosing a seat in a public place involves careful consideration of personal space.  We are very diffident about asking to share café tables; and on buses and trains we sit beside a stranger only when all other separate seats are … Continue reading →

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Unmanageable Tourism

Posted on May 11, 2019 by brianhuman

‘The Dutch tourist board is to stop actively promoting the Netherlands as a holiday destination because its main attractions – the canals, tulips and windmills – are becoming both overcrowded, the Telegraaf said on Monday. In future the NBTC will … Continue reading →

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Take a Seat – Take a Moment 7

Posted on May 7, 2019 by brianhuman

Another reason for people to sit about in public spaces: a cigarette break. Photo: Senate House Hill, Cambridge, April 2019

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Memory Trip

Posted on May 4, 2019 by brianhuman

Another experiment for the U3AC alternative photography session.  Much simpler this time: a cassette of Ilford XP2 in an Olympus Trip, again high street processed.  Reminded me what a pleasure the Trip is to use and how good the results … Continue reading →

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Double Exposure

Posted on May 3, 2019 by brianhuman

I am preparing a session on alternative photography for the U3AC Photo Forum.  The idea is to encourage people to break away from straightforward use of a digital camera.  One approach is to go back to film and create deliberate … Continue reading →

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Take a Seat – Take a Moment 6

Posted on April 28, 2019 by brianhuman

So, why do people sit about in public spaces?  Variously: chatting, eating, reading, sleeping, watching, waiting, working on a laptop, attending to the demands of a mobile phone.  Or maybe lost in moments of inner calm and reverie, time off … Continue reading →

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Take a Seat – Take a Moment 5

Posted on April 13, 2019 by brianhuman

Another book of moments (see post 21st March 2019) is People Kissing by Levine and Ramey (Princetown Architectural Press 2019).  More active that quiet moments, the sub-title is ‘A Century of Photographs’ and it reveals the shifts in social and … Continue reading →

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Take a Seat – Take a Moment 4

Posted on April 9, 2019 by brianhuman

Alasdair and I are planning a session for the U3AC Photography Forum loosely titled ‘Alternative Photography’.  The aim is to get people to play, experiment and have photographic fun, by using film, for example.  So, I loaded an Olympus Trip … Continue reading →

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U3AC Photo Forum 2018-19 19: Song Titles

Posted on March 24, 2019 by brianhuman

The last session of term was a collation of members’ work based on song titles.  The minimal rules set by Tim were: images can be newly taken or from personal archives; the title can be any type of song – … Continue reading →

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Take a Seat – Take a Moment 2

Posted on March 21, 2019 by brianhuman

The previous post has set me thinking that there might be a photo book in my pictures of people sitting in quiet moments.  This would be in a similar vein to my Ruckenfigur Revisited (2013).  More elevated examples are Elliott … Continue reading →

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