Category: adverts

• doors close soon after the melody ends (portals #4)

  Tokyo September 2010 Tokyo September 2010 Tokyo September 2010 Beijing April 2012 1 Singapore December 2005 (Armenian Church) 2-3 Tokyo September 2010 4 Calgary May 2025

  dereksayer

  August 18, 2025

  adverts, cafés, cities, night, people, sex, shop windows, street photography

  Beijing, Calgary, Singapore, Tokyo

• beijing blur

  If Miroslav Tichý had visited Beijing in April 2012 this is what his cameras might have recorded. (last 2 photos here are Shanghai)

  dereksayer

  August 18, 2025

  adverts, cities, landscape, people, photographers, reflections, shop windows, street photography

  Beijing

• 17 Ave SW + vicinity

  All images shot on and around 17 Avenue SW, Calgary, Alberta, 2024-2025

  dereksayer

  July 14, 2025

  adverts, Canadiana, cities, graffiti, murals, night, posters, street photography

  Calgary

• portals #2

  Mexico City, May 2025 Singapore, June 2022 Mexico City, May 2025 Penang, June 2022 Mexico City, May 2025

  dereksayer

  July 14, 2025

  adverts, architecture, cafés, cities, people, shop windows, street photography

  Malaysia, Mexico City, Penang, Singapore

• colors

  1, 6 Seville 2–5 Madrid 1-2 Seville 3-4 Madrid Calgary

  dereksayer

  July 13, 2025

  adverts, artworks, cities, colors, posters, shop windows, street photography

  Calgary, Madrid, Sevilla

• portals #1

  These photos were all taken on a first-generation Sony digital camera with a resolution of 1 megapixel in New Zealand in October-December 2000. Auckland 1 unknown (rural NZ) 2-5 Hastings 1 Houhora 2 Kawakawa 3-4 Kaeo 5-6 Kohukohu 1 Mangonui 2-5 Napier 6 Paeroa 1 Paihia 2-6 Tarradale 1-2 Te Aroha 3-5 Wellington 1-2 Wellington…

  dereksayer

  June 20, 2025

  adverts, architecture, cafés, cemeteries, cities, colors, monuments, murals, restaurants, rural, sex, shop windows, street photography

  New Zealand

• reds 2024

  1 calgary, 2-6 mexico city feb 2024 1-3 mexico city feb 2024, 4-6 london may 2024 paris may 2024 paris may 2024 1-5 paris may 2024, 6 calgary 1 calgary, 2-4 paris may 2024 paris may 2024 11 street sw, calgary calgary

  dereksayer

  May 13, 2025

  adverts, artworks, cafés, cities, colors, exhibitions, graffiti, museums, night, posters, restaurants, shop windows, street photography

  Calgary, London, Paris

• Brick Lane, 2024 #2 (if I must die …)

  Whenever we are in London (where I was born) we try to visit Brick Lane in Whitechapel, an area we have watched gentrifying over the years with mixed feelings. But so far, the ever-changing graffiti remains a reliable constant. All images shot 6-8 May, 2024

  dereksayer

  April 15, 2025

  adverts, artworks, cities, graffiti, murals, reflections, shop windows

  London

• Brick Lane, 2024 #1

  Whenever we are in London (where I was born) we try to visit Brick Lane in Whitechapel, an area we have watched gentrifying over the years with mixed feelings. But so far, the ever-changing graffiti remains a reliable constant. All images shot 6-8 May, 2024

  dereksayer

  April 15, 2025

  adverts, artworks, cities, graffiti, posters

  London

• window shopping #8 (London: tart cards)

  I took these photos in London’s West End during 2001-2003. “Tart cards” advertising “all services” were then ubiquitous in the UK capital’s iconic red telephone boxes. Nowadays they seem scarcer. Placing tart cards in phone boxes was made illegal by the passing of the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001 … By 2002 most convicted carders were receiving…

  dereksayer

  January 7, 2025

  adverts, cities, sex

  London