Category: murals
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if walls could talk #1
Some walls are alive, blood flows in them, red warm blood pulsates under the thin layer of plaster in the stones … Sometimes when I walk around some wall, I remember the wall that lives in my fantasy, and I am fearful … Mikuláš Medek, diary entry, 13 April 1951 I was in Athens in…
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Kunsthalle (Berlin walls)
A kunsthalle is a facility that mounts temporary art exhibitions, similar to an art gallery. It is distinct from an art museum by not having a permanent collection. Wikipedia The first gallery shows fragments of the Berlin Wall for sale in shop windows (#1 + 2) or left standing as a tourist attraction. The rest of…
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murals in Mission
I photographed these murals in San Francisco twenty years ago next month. How many are still there, I don’t know. Mission district, San Francisco, April 2003
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horizontals #1
CaixaForum, Sevilla, May 2018. Sevilla, May 2018. Bus station, bar, and Plaza de España. Madrid, May 2018. Two of these photographs were taken at the CaixaForum on the Paseo del Prado, the rest in nearby back streets. Mexico City, February 2019. The highway to Teotihuacán. Mexico City, February 2020. 4th + 5th images shot at…
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Brick Lane, 2015
Whenever we are in London (where I was born) we try to visit Brick Lane in Whitechapel, an area we have watched over the years gentrify with mixed feelings. But so far, the ever-changing graffiti remains a reliable constant. These images were shot on June 20, 2015.
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