Category: reflections

• unexpected encounters #1—the gaze

  self portrait with Santa Lucia, Siena, March 2001 What too often gets elided from current gaze talk is the possibility of looking as an act of ambivalence.  As Frantz Fanon wrote in “Black Skin, White Masks,” his psychoanalytic study of colonialism, even the oppressor’s gaze can be a site of uncertainty; no one’s viewpoint—or projection—is entirely secure…

  dereksayer

  March 5, 2024

  artworks, reflections, shop windows

  Siena

• 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 #3

  broadly defined, to include food courts, diners, hawker stalls, food trucks, and street food establishments of all kinds … Memphis, TN September 2013 Austin, TX September 2013 Paris, TX May 2014 Nashville, TN June 2014 Athens, GA June 2014

  dereksayer

  September 1, 2023

  Americana, cafés, cities, food, people, pubs + bars, reflections, restaurants, street photography

  Athens Georgia, Austin, Memphis, Nashville, Paris Texas, Texas

• 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

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

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

• Marfa, Texas (Americana #2)

  I have been avoiding visiting the United States since Trump was elected president in 2016 and I can’t see that changing so long as MAGA remains a force in the land. But I have some fond memories. These photos were taken on my first trip to Marfa, Texas, in April 2011. The images in the…

  dereksayer

  May 30, 2023

  adverts, Americana, architecture, hotels, landscape, reflections, rural, shop windows, skies, trains

  Marfa, Texas

• rencontres #3 (le gai savoir)

  a final set of images from the Rencontres d’Arles, September 2014

  dereksayer

  May 24, 2023

  adverts, artworks, cities, exhibitions, graffiti, night, people, posters, reflections, shop windows, skies, street photography

  Arles, Provence

• kafka metro tram

  Quadrio Shopping Center, Národní třída, Prague The “moving head” of Franz Kafka (#1), installed outside the Quadria Center in 2014, is by the artist David Černý. The text in image #7 translates as “love somehow doesn’t always triumph over liars or over money” – a pointed allusion to Václav Havel’s slogan “Truth and love must…

  dereksayer

  May 19, 2023

  adverts, artworks, cities, monuments, reflections, sculptures, sex, shopping malls, street photography

  Prague

• window shopping #6 (New York)

  all images shot in New York City, January 2011

  dereksayer

  May 17, 2023

  adverts, Americana, cities, food, markets, people, posters, reflections, restaurants, sex, shop windows, street photography

• November light (Lancaster canal)

  A walk along the Lancaster canal, 30 November 2014. As often in those parts, between the Pennines and the sea, the autumn light was incredible. (I call #6 “the decisive moment”)

  dereksayer

  May 12, 2023

  landscape, Luci, reflections, rural, skies

  Garstang, Lancashire