Category: shop windows

• 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

• at the mall

  calgary, alberta, 14 december 2023

  dereksayer

  December 26, 2023

  adverts, Canadiana, cities, graffiti, shop windows, shopping malls

  Calgary

• 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

• Brick Lane, 2018 #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. These images were shot on April 27, 2018. Joe’s Kid Café had now become Pho Village,…

  dereksayer

  September 12, 2023

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

  London

• 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

• 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 #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

• the East is red

  China photos April 2012, Cambodia and Vietnam photos February 2016 #1-3 Shanghai #4-7 Beijing Beijing #1-2 Beijing #3-8 Siem Reap Hanoi #1-3 Hanoi 4-7 Saigon

  dereksayer

  June 8, 2023

  adverts, airports, cafés, cities, colors, food, markets, murals, people, posters, restaurants, shop windows, street photography

  Beijing, China, Hanoi, Saigon, Shanghai, Siem Reap, 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