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Monthly Archives: July 2010
Fa-fa-favela
With the proviso that Project Morrinho sounds worryingly close to football manager Jose’s latest plan for Special One based world domination it’s well worth popping along to see this replica favela currently based outside the Royal Festival Hall. As you … Continue reading
A Newport state of mind
I think this is what they invented the internet for. A celebration of (ahem) Casnewydd based on Alicia Key’s sprawling homage to Efrog Newydd (as not even the Welsh call the Big Apple): Newport… concrete jumble, nothing in order, not … Continue reading
The new bikes of London
Cycle Hire ranks are popping up all over town. Some bits of road have been painted blue. It would be a biking revolution if anyone knew anything about it. Till it all becomes clearer how about taking a peek at … Continue reading
V for Victoria
Inspired by a shot on flickr I’ve been getting a little too obsessive about post boxes, in particular the royal markings on them. I’m not the only one though – there are scarily detailed web sites celebrating everything from post … Continue reading
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Tagged amersham, crown, post box, royal markings, vr, whimsical history
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This remains
The Family and the The Land, Sally Mann Photographers’ Gallery, London In the far corner of the upper floor of the Photographers’ Gallery, behind the repeated notices that what lies ahead is disturbing, are Sally Mann’s images, What Remains. Produced … Continue reading
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Tagged photographers gallery, sally mann, the family and the land, what remains
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Documents
So I finally got onto a proper football pitch in a proper football ground, although this wasn’t some late and unexpected blooming of my pro sport career but a challenge taken up as part of the Documentary Photography course that … Continue reading
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Tagged chesham united, documentary photography, kodak tri x, zoom in
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Human lives
I’m guessing that Edgware Road is the sort of area that has Daily Express readers howling into their ‘newspapers’ shouting with rage and frustration about multiculturalism and other such evils of the modern world. Why even the Argos has signs … Continue reading
It was five years ago today
Sometime around 10am on 7 July 2005 I phoned work. “I don’t think I can come in today,” I said, “the bus behind me has just exploded.” I was on a bus heading north towards Euston at the edge of … Continue reading
The wisdom of the needle
This is a Fujica ST705. Attached to it is Fujinon 55mm lens and going through it is Fujicolor C200 film. Thank goodness for the Fuji corporation. Thank goodness also for simplicity. With the addition of two SR44 batteries (sadly non … Continue reading
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Tagged exposure needle, fujica st705, leica s2, online photographer, simplicity
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Excuse me …
He waits, the goat. It’s feeding time, so he waits. Except today there’s nobody. What’s going on? The place is normally so busy. Normally so much food for the goat. But, today … I hadn’t the heart to tell him … Continue reading
