Graham Wickens presented travel photographs by members of the Forum. Ten people submitted around 40 pictures – mainly in colour, just a couple in black and white.
Destinations ranged from the Hebrides and Felixstowe to Nagasaki and Chatsworth and from Hanoi and the Vatican to the Panama Canal and the Okavango Delta. Subjects included people, architecture, mountains, beaches, statues, planes and the sea.
I submitted photographs taken in London walking from King’s Cross to the Royal Academy on 22nd February – a dreadful wet grey on grey day, but I tried to make the best of like an unlucky tourist. Walking down Shaftesbury Avenue, I was drawn to red lanterns at the end of Gerrard Place and followed them down to Newport Place, called Al Fresco Square on the Chinatown map. On to Piccadilly Circus – full of real tourists under umbrellas – gloominess added drama to illuminations and wet the pavement became a bonus. At the Royal Academy I photographed a section of The First Supper (Galaxy Black) by Tavares Strachan, part of ‘Entangled Pasts’ exhibition – it shows Haile Selassie (1892-1975) flanked by Zumbi dos Palmares (1655-1695) and Mary Seacole (1805-1881). Photos below.
