museums – Camera lucida

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

encounters/annie ernaux

Notre vrai moi n’ est pas tout entier en nous. Jean-Jacques Rousseau These photographs were all shot at the exhibition “Exteriors: Annie Ernaux and Photography,” at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, February–May 2024, curated by Lou Stoppard. I love both Ernaux’ writing and the kind of street photography represented in the show, and…

dereksayer

April 17, 2025

artworks, cities, exhibitions, museums, photographers, reflections, street photography

unexpected encounters #10: the arrival of modernity

The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the beginning of the conquest and looting of the East Indies, the turning of Africa into a warren for the commercial hunting of black-skins, signalized the rosy dawn of the era of capitalist production. Karl Marx, Capital,…

dereksayer

March 26, 2024

architecture, artworks, Canadiana, cities, food, modernism, murals, museums

Calgary, Mexico City

statuesque #2 (Prague)

all images shot in Prague, various dates

dereksayer

September 3, 2023

architecture, artworks, cities, museums, sculptures

Prague

window shopping #7 (Prague +)

All images shot in June 2004 in Czech Republic. Location is Prague unless otherwise indicated. #4 + 5 Karlovy Vary #2 Mariánské Lázně, #6 Karlovy Vary #2 Karlovy Vary

dereksayer

September 1, 2023

adverts, architecture, artworks, cities, murals, museums, night, reflections, shop windows

Czechia, Prague

cafés #2

broadly defined, to include food courts, diners, hawker stalls, food trucks, and street food establishments of all kinds … Chicago, December 2013 Saigon February 2016 Mexico City, February 2018 Mexico City, February 2019

dereksayer

August 25, 2023

cafés, cities, food, museums, night, people, restaurants, street photography

Chicago, Mexico City, Saigon, Vietnam

redder yet

1-2 Tokyo, September 2011 #3 Calgary #4-6 Mexico City, February 2018 #1-2 Mexico City, February 2018 #3 New York City, January 2011 #4 + 6 Johor Bahru, February 2023 #5 Singapore, February 2023 #1 Siem Reap, February 2016 #2-6 Mexico City February 2018 all remaining images Mexico City, February 2018

dereksayer

August 13, 2023

adverts, architecture, artworks, cities, colors, exhibitions, markets, modernism, museums, people, shop windows, street photography

Calgary, Cambodia, Johor Bahru, Malaysia, Mexico City, New York, Siem Reap, Singapore, Tokyo

curves #3

Tokyo, September 2010 #1 + 5 Frankfurt #2–4 Berlin March 2016 #1 Calgary #2–6 Mexico City February 2018 Mexico City, February 2018

dereksayer

August 12, 2023

adverts, airports, architecture, artworks, cities, exhibitions, food, geometries, modernism, museums, reflections, restaurants, sculptures, shop windows, trains

Berlin, Calgary, Frankfurt, Mexico City, Tokyo

are, bure, boke #4

Tokyo, September 2011 #1–2 Mexico City, February 2018 #3 Singapore, February 2016 4–6 Johor Bahru, February 2016 Hanoi, February 2016 Frankfurt, March 2016 #1–4 Frankfurt #5–6 Berlin March 2016 Berlin, March 2016

dereksayer

July 21, 2023