Category: posters

• portals #3

  Seville, May 2018 1 Singapore 2–5 Johor Bahru 6 Penang June 2022 Madrid, May 2018 Penang, June 2022 Seville, May 2018 Penang, June 2022 Madrid, May 2018

  dereksayer

  July 15, 2025

  architecture, cities, murals, posters, shop windows, street photography

  Johor Bahru, Madrid, Malaysia, Penang, Seville, Singapore

• 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

• 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

• 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

• (post)colonial imaginaries: arabesques #2

  These images are all from the exhibition “Présences arabes – Art moderne et décolonisation. Paris 1908-1988,” at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris from April to August 2024. La Musée d’Art Moderne propose de redécouvrir la diversité des modernités arabes au 20ème siècle et de renouveler le regard historique sur des scènes artistiques encore peu…

  dereksayer

  April 16, 2025

  artworks, cities, exhibitions, modernism, photographers, posters, surrealism

  Paris

• (post)colonial imaginaries: arabesques #1

  Images from exhibition “Zineb Sedira: Dreams Have No Titles” (Whitechapel Gallery, London, Feb–May 2024) Originally conceived for the French Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022, Dreams Have No Titles is an immersive installation comprising film, sculpture, photography and performance, that interweaves the artist’s biography with activist films produced across France, Algeria and Italy in the…

  dereksayer

  April 16, 2025

  artworks, exhibitions, modernism, posters

  London, Paris

• 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

• Brick Lane, 2018 #2

  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. These images were shot on April 27, 2018.

  dereksayer

  September 12, 2023

  adverts, cities, gentrification, graffiti, murals, people, posters, shop windows, street photography

  London

• 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

  artworks, cafés, cities, markets, monuments, museums, night, people, posters, reflections, street photography, trains

  Berlin, Frankfurt, Hanoi, Johor Bahru, Malaysia, Mexico City, Singapore, Tokyo, Vietnam

• sing the city electric

  Electricity poles, wires, and cables are an essential part of the modern urban environment, giving it shape as well as bringing light. Mostly they go unnoticed and unphotographed. Here are some exuberant examples. I borrow the title of this post from Faris Joraimi’s essay “I Sing the City Electric: Modern Singapore Envisioned in Popular Malay…

  dereksayer

  June 11, 2023

  adverts, cities, geometries, landscape, people, posters, street photography

  Cambodia, Hanoi, Johor Bahru, Malaysia, Mexico City, Siem Reap, Tokyo, Vietnam