Carpe Diem
Share A poem to remind us to live each day and not to waste it… Carpe diem; seize they day, Don’t let life pass you by. Be full of colour, not shades of grey, Carpe diem; seize the day Don’t you let it waste away. Tomorrow could be the day you die So carpe...
The World is Still Big – Alex Hartley Photographs
Share Large scale, (approximately 90 cm x 100 cm) colored photographs fill the Victoria Miro Gallery in Islington, North London. Seen together, the earthy vistas suggest a narrative of an un-peopled universe, but also include evidence of human intervention. The geography represented depicts arctic terrain, muddy jungle rivers, mossy, green woodlands and arid, desert spaces....
Utopus – Architecture and Utopia
Share Since I was introduced to photography as an art form, I have repeatedly been drawn to architecture as subject matter. Burgeoning from an interest in form and composition in college, this fixation is now being honed into a more focused interest on certain issues and topics. Therefore, it is the intention of this; my...
Review: Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Share The competition for 2011 Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year received over 41,000 images from 95 different countries. The esteemed and experienced judges were looking for photographic stories that tell of the wonder and beauty of nature and how impoverished we are in its absence. This display of the winners, runners-up and those...
The Day the Music Died (and they were singing)
Share As Don McLean sings in American Pie, the line becomes title to the new exhibition at Proud Galleries, Camden, on an extended show from 14th December 2011 until 4th March 2012. Suggesting a time when not merely music but mainly a musician has died, this collection plays a tribute to the vast circle of...
Everybody Loves Street: Todd Diederich at ACRE projects
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‘Audrey a Roma’ – at the Ara Pacis, Rome
Share The legend of Audrey Hepburn has taken on many different guises over the last five decades. There is Audrey as Holly Golightly, the wide eyed ‘socialite’ who flitters around New York in the early 1960s in her now iconic black Givenchy dress, belonging to no one. There is Audrey as Princess Ann, rebelling in...
Pieter Hugo, ‘Permanent Error’ – at the MAXXI, Rome
Share The collection of photographs entitled ‘Permanent Error’, by Pieter Hugo, is part of a wider exhibition at Rome’s MAXXI museum that seeks to redefine the way the viewer sees the concept of recycling. ‘Re-cycle – strategies for architecture, city and planet’ is split into three subsections, each focusing on the role of this public...
Jazz photos by Maya Hed at The Tel Aviv Opera House
Share Since November 13th The Tel Aviv Opera house has been showing the latest work of photographer Maya Hed entitled ‘A Momentary Lapse of Reason’. She has been working on a series of photographs of Jazz musicians, eschewing the glitz of the performance for the effort of the sound check. These images reflect the more...
‘The Great White Silence’ (1924) at the West End Odeon Leicester Square
Share Last year I had the honour and privilege of viewing Herbert Ponting’s infamous adventure documentary, The Great White Silence. Held in a gala at the West End Odeon in Leicester Square, the British Film Institute unveiled the result of a restoration project, which began in 1993. The documentary film, which has now been restored...
‘Beyond Africa: From Africa to New York’, Arte5, Roma
Share It would be easy to miss the Beyond Africa: From Africa to New York exhibition if you walked past it without paying attention, tucked away as it is in a corner of Arte5, a bookshop on Corso Vittorio Emanuele II in the heart of Rome. Arte 5 is seconds away from Piazza Venezia, down...
Picturing the History of Photography through the ‘Victoria and Albert’ Archives
Share Upon discovering that the Victoria & Albert Museum in London would be opening up it’s photography archives (from 1839-1960s) to form a new permanent exhibition, I envisioned some labyrinthine colossus of a collection, a revelatory world in pictures aptly at home below vaulted ceilings and perhaps against rich, burgundy flock wallpaper. Room 38a is...
Darbar Indian Music Festival
Share An excitement is growing. It begins as a dull rumble, which spreads slowly like a whispered secret, slithering through social networks, popping up in magazines. Rumours circulate about the headlining act. Friends and family begin to chat tentatively, making plans. The excitement builds as we start to receive emails; Early Bird Passes. In a...
Duchamp was here – Is this the best Dada graffiti ever?
Share There’s graffiti and then there’s Dada graffiti. Enjoy! Thanks to Celinecelines. This image has a creative commons licence. Do you know of any better Dada graffiti? Leave a link in the comments if you do. Thanks Rate this post by clicking on the stars
Street photography – Lago di Garda
Share YT3YFB7EF9RW Garda, a photo by theflaneurphotos on Flickr. Street scene from Lake Garda Rate this post by clicking on the stars
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