Category: museums

• are, bure, boke #3 (Prague)

  Photography is painting with light! The blurs, the spots, those are errors! But the errors are part of it, they give it poetry and turn it into painting … If you want to be famous, you have to do whatever you’re doing worse than anyone else in the whole world. Miroslav Tichý #1-2 Havelská market…

  dereksayer

  July 14, 2023

  artworks, cafés, cities, exhibitions, food, markets, monuments, museums, people, photographers, pubs + bars, restaurants, sculptures, shop windows, shopping malls, street photography

  Prague

• blues + yellows #2

  #1 Johor Bahru #2-3 Siem Reap #4-5 Hanoi Jan-Feb 2016 #1-3 Saigon Feb 2016 #4 Frankfurt March 2016 #1-2 Frankfurt #3-4 Berlin #5-7 Prague (Karlín) March-April 2016 #1-4 Prague (Karlín + Žižkov) #5-6 Prague-Brno rail journey April 2016 Calgary, 2016-2017 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah February 2023 Kuching, Sarawak February 2023

  dereksayer

  June 9, 2023

  artworks, cafés, cities, colors, food, graffiti, Luci, markets, museums, people, rail journeys, street photography, trains

  Berlin, Brno, Calgary, Cambodia, Frankfurt, Hanoi, Johor Bahru, Kota Kinabalu, Kuching, Malaysia, Prague, Sabah, Saigon, Sarawak, Siem Reap, Vietnam

• are, bure, boke #2

  The Japanese Provoke photographers’ slogan “are, bure, boke,” or “rough, blurred, out-of-focus” applies to many of my images. Some of these effects are intentional, more are not. Many people would dismiss these simply as “bad pictures,” but another view is possible: Photography is painting with light! The blurs, the spots, those are errors! But the errors…

  dereksayer

  May 21, 2023

  adverts, Americana, artworks, cafés, cities, Ex Situ, exhibitions, food, graffiti, hotels, museums, night, people, photographers, restaurants, sculptures, shop windows, street photography

  Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, Marathon, Mexico City, New York, Sabah, Texas

• our excellent gastronomic journey in Singapore, Johor, Sabah, and Sarawak

  January 27 – February 21, 2023 Singapore: #1 roti canai at 3.00 a.m. at all-night diner on Bencoolen Street #2 Malay breakfast at Putra Minang restaurant, Bencoolen Street #3 wonton noodles at Tiong Bahru market #4 Chilli Padi Nonya Restaurant, Joo Chiat Place #5-6 white pepper crab at hawker center Singapore: #1-3 Hainanese chicken rice…

  dereksayer

  May 9, 2023

  cafés, cities, food, markets, museums, restaurants

  Borneo, Johor Bahru, Kota Kinabalu, Kuching, Malaysia, Sabah, Sarawak, Singapore

• curves #2

  #1 Marfa, TX #2 Johor Bahru Feb 2016 #3 Calgary 2016 #1 -3 Clay Ellis exhibition, Third Stake Esplanade Art Gallery, Medicine Hat, Alberta, July 2016 #4 Sun Studio, Memphis, TN, September 2013 #1 Waxworks Museum, Melantrichova St #2 Rudolf Kremlička, mural in Fénix Palace arcade, Wenceslas Square #3 Prague Castle #4 Jan Štursa, statues…

  dereksayer

  May 4, 2023

  architecture, artworks, cities, exhibitions, food, geometries, monuments, murals, museums, restaurants, sculptures, shop windows

  Alberta, Calgary, Johor Bahru, Malaysia, Marfa, Medicine Hat, Memphis, Mexico City, Prague, Texas

• the color purple

  loosely interpreted, on a scale of pinkish mauve to mood indigo New Zealand, October-December 2000 (#1-2 Auckland #3 Devonport #4 Kaeo #5 Kaitaia) New Zealand, October-December 2000 (#1 Napier #2 Rawene #3 Wellington #4-6 Whangerei) #1 Florence #2-4 Rome January-March 2001 #5 San Francisco April 2002 San Francisco, April 2002 Los Angeles, April 2002 #1-2…

  dereksayer

  April 13, 2023

  adverts, cafés, cities, colors, food, museums, people, posters, reflections, rural, seas, sex, shop windows, street photography

  Auckland, California, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New Zealand, San Francisco, Wellington

• diagonals #2

  Prague #1-3 Kampa Museum #4 Franz Kafka Square #1 + 6 Baba #2 Na Příkopě #3 Ovocný trh/Fruit Market #4-5 Trade Fair Palace, Aero poster by František Zelenka) #1 Palladium mall #2 + 3 Prague metro #4 Hradčany Karlín Vyšehrad (#5 apartment block on Neklanova St, Josef Chochol, 1913-14) #1 Smíchov (exhibit in David Černý’s…

  dereksayer

  April 6, 2023

  architecture, artworks, cities, exhibitions, geometries, modernism, museums, people, reflections, skies, street photography

  Berlin, Prague

• Theodor Adorno’s desk

  being a record of the hunt for Theodor Adorno’s desk in Frankfurt am Main on 12 March 2016

  dereksayer

  March 26, 2023

  artworks, cities, exhibitions, museums, people, sculptures

  Frankfurt, Germany

• statuesque

  Barcelona, April 2015. 1st image is Georg Kolbe’s statue “Dawn” in Mies van der Rohe’s (reconstructed) Barcelona pavilion. Mexico City, February 2018. Parque México (Fuente de los Cántaros, [Fountain of the Pitchers] by José María Fernández Urbina), Museo Soumaya, Palacio de Bellas Artes, street in Condesa district. Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, England, April 2018 Wrest Park…

  dereksayer

  March 17, 2023

  adverts, artworks, cities, exhibitions, graffiti, monuments, murals, museums, photographers, posters, sculptures, shop windows

  Barcelona, London, Mexico City, Sevilla, Wrest Park

• 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…

  dereksayer

  March 17, 2023

  adverts, architecture, cafés, cities, geometries, graffiti, landscape, murals, museums, people, street photography

  Madrid, Mexico City, Sevilla, Spain