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Those We Lost 2023
We are at that time of year when newspapers and broadcast media devote column inches and air time to litanies of those who have died in the past twelve months. The list in the Review section of today’s Observer records … Continue reading
Scanner Photography
Saw this soap wrapper lying on the floor and thought I’d scan it. Sepia toned in Lightroom.
Shutter Hub Open 2023-2024 – 2
At the Shutter Hub Open launch on Sunday an artist/writer asked me why I support the Hub. My off the cuff reply was, ‘Because it’s an antidote to camera clubs.’ That might be true in many ways, but looking round … Continue reading
Shutter Hub Open 23/24 – 1
‘Shutter Hub are extremely pleased to be presenting the Shutter Hub OPEN 2023/24 exhibition at the Alison Richard Building. [27 November 2023 – 2 February 2024]’ ‘The exhibition brings together over 130 international photographers and promotes the future of photography … Continue reading
Venus Pudica – Fitzwilliam Museum
Venus Pudica by Pompeo Marchesi (Italian, 1789-1858, Milan). White marble, dated 1829. Created for Duca Pompeo Litta Visconti Arese and situated in one of the grottos of the Nymphaeum of the Villa Lainate, near Milan, reputedly from a palazzo in … Continue reading
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Fen Landscape?
It’s called Fulbourn Fen, but is it really fen landscape? Balsham wind turbines in the background.
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Mining the Diaries 65: Italy 2006
Bargo Pinti 42, Florence, 27th June 2006 Up early sitting on the blessedly cool terrace reading The Photograph by Penelope lively. Down to the central market after breakfast to buy food – pork and potatoes, lettuce, olives, cherries, bread, red … Continue reading
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Museo di Palazzo Grimani 1
Unidentified figure in the shadows, Museo di Palazzo Grimani, Venice, May 2023.
Mining the Diaries 64: Wales 2006
Or’eira, Llanfacherth, Dolgellau, 9th May 2006 Portmeirion: a curious place. Clough Williams-Ellis designed and started building it in 1925, supposedly ‘to demonstrate how a naturally beautiful site could be developed without spoiling it.’ Accordingly, it is charming, harmonious and of … Continue reading
Mining the Diaries 63: Spain 2006
Hotel Astoria Palace, Valencia, 19th March 2006 We are here for the Las Fallas festival. Its origins lie in a carpenters’ tradition, from the Middle Ages, celebrating the spring equinox on 19th March by burning the pieces of wood, parots, … Continue reading
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El Anatsui
Popped in to see the work of El Anatsui in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern while I was in London Yesterday.
Japanese Photography
A day in London to see Daido Moriyama at the Photographers’ Gallery and Hiroshi Sugimoto at the Hayward Gallery. Difficult to call to mind two more different photographers – chaos and order.