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Monthly Archives: September 2023
Mining the Diaries 60: Wales 2005
Or’eira, Llanfacherth, Dolgellau 11th May 2005 Drove down to Brithdir to the start, north end, of the Torrent Walk. It was created by Thomas Payne for the Richards family of the nearby Caerynwch estate in the late 1800s. A short … Continue reading
Mining the Diaries 59: Germany 2005
Hotel Ritter, Heidelberg, 30th March 2005 Here for a four-day twinning exchange visit with the Cambridge City Council delegation. 7.00 Up promptly and out for a walk. Chilly and drizzling under an ashen sky. Early risers trudging to work – … Continue reading
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RIP Photojournalism
‘Photojournalism is dead’, according to Don McCullin in the ‘This much I know’ feature in the Observer for 17th September 2023. He goes on, ‘We’ve become obsessed with glamour and gloss: footballers, narcissism and gossip. Nobody wants the pictures I … Continue reading
Epstein and Leger
Third Portrait of Oriel Ross, 1931, Jacob Epstein and Young Girl Holding a Flower, 1954, Fernand Leger, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Mining the Diaries 58: India 2004
Pink City Camp, Pushkar, 23rd November 2004 A night of tossing and turning punctuated by the sounds of Indian music, campers’ ablutions through canvas and camels grunting and bellowing. A bucket of hot water arrives at six-thirty. The bed is … Continue reading
Radical Art in Cambridge – Cambridge Darkroom
Three previous posts (22/09/22, 31/10/22, 24/02/23) have covered the Radical Art in Cambridge project and the role of the Cambridge Darkroom. The penultimate meeting in the programme of Radical Art events to date looked at the community roots of the … Continue reading
Fen Landscape
Early morning walk along Broad Lane, Saturday 16th September 2023.
Pavel Buchler
Helping to establish and then work with the St Matthews Photo Workshop and subsequently the Cambridge Darkroom between 1978 and c.1992 was one of the most rewarding parts of my life. Not only did I learn a great deal about … Continue reading
Mining the Diaries 57: Czechoslovakia 2004
Julius Apart Hotel, Wenceslas Square, Prague, 21st July 2004 A highlight of the visit so far: coffee at Café Slavia. The cafe opened in August 1884, poet and novelist Rainer Maria Rilke was a regular and it was famous for its associations … Continue reading
Mining the Diaries 56: The Netherlands 2004
Best Western City Hotel, Groningen, 13th May 2004 Here with Planning Department colleagues on a study tour to look at urban planning and design. Getting around on shocking pink bicycles with back-pedal brakes – impressions of Dutch gables and chestnut … Continue reading
Looking Down
I’ve started rewatching Robert Hughes’ 1980 TV series ‘The Shock of the New’. In episode one he lauds the Eiffel Tower, completed in 1889, as the symbol of modernism, the ‘Tower of Babel of the new Machine Age’. He argues … Continue reading