Foggy Night

If you can see

"If you can see, you can also take pictures. But learning to see may take a long time." anon

Driving

Driving to dinner last night, from Soller to Deia, Mallorca

Carnival

These kids look exhausted after about 8 hours of dancing next to their float.

Look Up

Don't forget to look up and down and all around when your walking in London.  These are a few of my recent nature finds in the city.

Let me learn from you

picture found here

'Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always be so. One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in the pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky and want, more than all the world, your return.' Mary Jean Iron

So Cool

from here

Old CK Ad

found here

Nice

Brandon Harman, New York, by Backyard Bill...great blog check it out.

We should all have a family portrait like this

Found here

Just the beginning?

Not long left to see the current Photographers' Gallery Bookshop exhibition Polaroid Project showing until the end of January. 

The last instant film manufactured by Polaroid was produced in 2008, with an expiry date of October 2009. To mark its passing national newspaper The Observer gave eight leading contemporary photographers Polaroid film and cameras for a day - Harry Borden (bottom image), Nan Goldin, Tom Hunter, Mary McCartney, Martin Parr, Rankin, Lord Snowdon and Sam Taylor-Wood (top image).

However, The Impossible Project – a group of dedicated Polaroid enthusiasts – plan to manufacture new Polaroid format film in early 2010. As a result, Polaroid will begin to manufacture its instant cameras again. Yipee!

ps. iPhone app Camera Bag has some great filters including a Polaroid one to comfort you while you wait for more film.

Moonmilk by Ryan McGinley

  

 

I must buy this book by the talented Ryan McGinley

I want them all!

Louise Bobbe has a new exhibition opening this Thursday at the Stephanie Hoppen Gallery in London.  Her work is a dream...sensual, seductive and serene, each piece telling its own story, filled with tension and intimacy.

Not to be missed!

Sophie Calle at the Whitechapel!

I am so excited that Sophie Calle has a new exhibition coming to the Whitechapel Gallery from Oct 16 - Jan 3.  I went to an exhibition at Camden Arts Centre years ago which was so inspiring. The quote below sums her up for me..

"I saw him for the first time in December 1985, at a lecture he was giving. I found him attractive, but one thing bothered me: he was wearing an ugly tie. The next day I anonymously sent him a thin brown tie. Later, I saw him in a restaurant; he was wearing it. Unfortunately, it clashed with his shirt. I was then that I decided to take on the task of dressing him from head to toe: I would send him one article of clothing every year at Christmas. In 1986, he received a pair of silk grey socks; in 1987, a black alpaca sweater; in 1988, a white shirt; in 1989, a pair of gold-plated cufflinks; in 1990, a pair of boxer shorts with a Christmas-tree pattern; nothing in 1991; and in 1992, a pair of grey trousers. Someday, when he is fully dressed by me, I would like to be introduced to him."

--from artist Sophie Calle, An Appointment with Sigmund Freud (Thames & Hudson, 1999)

London Skies

Why are clouds and skies so fascinating? I'm always snapping them...here's a couple of my favourites!

Teenage

  

 

Joseph Szabo

Photographs from Joseph Szabo's book called 'Teenage'.  Published by Greybull Press who have an inspiring list of titles. 

Jupiter over the Mediterranean

 

One fascinating image of our universe every day, here

Haunting, Beautiful

 

by Francesa Woodman

E.J. Bellocq

 

One of my favourite photographers...Bellocq is known for his photographs of prostitutes in Storyville, the legalized red-light district in New Orleans, where he worked in the early 20th Century.  See more of his work here.