Category Archives: Cambridge

Sainsbury Sunrise

Posted on December 12, 2021 by Brian

Yesterday, the advantages of: shopping early; and carrying a camera.

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Park Street Car Park, Cambridge

Posted on December 9, 2021 by Brian

Contractors are putting up scaffolding round the unlovely and unloved Park Street multi storey car park.  It is to be redeveloped as an apart-hotel with 250 public car parking spaces in the basement.  It closes on the 4th January. I’ve … Continue reading →

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Regenerating Beech

Posted on November 16, 2021 by Brian

At Wandlebury on Saturday to enjoy the autumn colours. Found this beech regenerating with eight new sturdy coppice-like growths shooting vertically from a fallen trunk.

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Coffee Stop

Posted on October 21, 2021 by Brian

Bridges coffee shop, Tuesday 19th November; I’m on my way to the ‘Reading Women’ class.  Outside with a black americano and an almond croissant; it’s mild for mid-November, but a brisk wind rattles the awning overhead. I dip into Women … Continue reading →

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Reading Women 4

Posted on October 20, 2021 by Brian

Yesterday’s U3AC session looked at The Blessed Reader, images of the Virgin Mary, principally the Annunciation.  The pictures included: the Simone Martini altarpiece, 1333, in Byzantine style; the Fra Angelico fresco from San Marco, Florence, c. 1435; a Veneziano predella … Continue reading →

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Reading Women 3

Posted on October 14, 2021 by Brian

Women predominate in paintings of people reading.  This reflects reading as a gendered activity: women read more than men, though whether this has always been consistently the case is unclear. The choice of women as subjects historically is not surprising … Continue reading →

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David Runnacles

Posted on September 20, 2021 by Brian

Several posts over the past three or four years have shown or mentioned the work of David Runnacles, a street photographer based in Cambridge.  His work has now been featured in INSPIRED EYE | Street Photography Magazine + Insights Video … Continue reading →

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Women Reading 2

Posted on September 10, 2021 by Brian

Maybe I should try to introduce my own pictures of women reading into the course as well as bringing up Kertesz’s book (see yesterday’s post). There are around 20 examples of women reading in my book Take a Seat – … Continue reading →

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Footfall: Nice Cover, Shame About the Book

Posted on June 21, 2021 by Brian

‘Does the artist understand their work best?’  That’s the question posed in the Royal Academy of Arts Magazine, Summer 2021.  Yes, argues critic Matthew Holman, ‘because they possess a more profound understanding of what they are up to’.  No, says … Continue reading →

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Footfall Final

Posted on June 15, 2021 by Brian

I introduced my Walking project on 29th January 2021.  Around 50 photographs from it have appeared up to 29th May, when I described bringing the work together in a Blurb book, Footfall – copies arrived on the 7th June.  The … Continue reading →

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Photographic Ups and Downs

Posted on May 29, 2021 by Brian

Thursday 27th was a day of photographic ups and downs. On the upside, the final version of my latest photobook, Footfall, was sent to Blurb for printing.  I tweaked a few of the pictures and included eight new ones that … Continue reading →

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Walking 45

Posted on May 24, 2021 by Brian

‘I walk because I like it.  I like the rhythm of it…’

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Walking 44

Posted on May 17, 2021 by Brian

‘…the unexpected insights and juxtapositions…’

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Walking 43

Posted on May 14, 2021 by Brian

To walk at night is to yield to, or embrace, an outlaw status.

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Walking 42

Posted on May 13, 2021 by Brian

‘Out in the street, we become observing entities, “part of that vast republican army of anonymous trampers”.’ 

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