Category: street photography
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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…
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unexpected encounters #15: are, bure, boke
By modernity, I mean the ephemeral, the fleeting, the contingent, the half of art whose other half is the eternal and the immutable. Charles Baudelaire, “The Painter of Modern Life” 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…
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unexpected encounters #7: aesthetics
Beauty will be convulsive, or it will not be. André Breton, Nadja Greece’s government has said the country is “turning a page” after Eurozone member states reached an agreement on the final elements of a plan to make its massive debt pile more manageable. The government spokesman, Dimitris Tzanakopoulos, hailed “a historic decision” that meant “the Greek people…
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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.
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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,…
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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
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