Category: street photography

• window shopping #5 (Tokyo)

  all images from September 2010

  dereksayer

  April 24, 2023

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

  Tokyo

• Tokyo blur

  for those who liked my post are, bure, boke Tokyo, September 2010

  dereksayer

  April 21, 2023

  adverts, cities, night, people, posters, street photography

  Tokyo

• 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

• window shopping #3 (London)

  aka the persistence of memory all images shot in London, England, 2001–2 The mainstream of photographic activity has shown that a Surrealist manipulation or theatricalization of the real is unnecessary, if not actually redundant. Surrealism lies at the heart of the photographic enterprise: in the very creation of a duplicate world, of a reality in…

  dereksayer

  April 10, 2023

  adverts, cities, people, posters, pubs + bars, reflections, sex, shop windows, street photography, surrealism

  London

• 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

• tube houses + motorbikes

  The narrow “tube houses” [nhà ống] are a striking feature of Vietnamese urban architecture. They are typically three to four meters (10 to 13 feet) wide. Some of the older tube houses in Hanoi’s Old Town, which were often inhabited by several families, are up to 100 meters deep, while newer tube houses can reach…

  dereksayer

  April 5, 2023

  architecture, cities, people, reflections, street photography

  Hanoi, Saigon, Vietnam

• seeing red

  Northland, New Zealand (Russell, Rawene, Whangerei, Kohukohu) October–November 2000 Northland, New Zealand (Kaeo, Waipukurau, Te Aroha, Wellington) October-November 2000 Wellington (#1, 4) and Auckland, New Zealand November 2000 #1 Florence, March 2000 #2-5 London 2001 #1 Atlanta, GA #2 Florence, AL #Fame Studios, Muscle Shoals, AL #4-5 Beale Street, Memphis, TN, September 2013 all Memphis,…

  dereksayer

  March 31, 2023

  cafés, cemeteries, cities, colors, night, people, posters, pubs + bars, restaurants, sex, shop windows, street photography

  Alabama, Athens, Auckland, Berlin, Cambodia, Cornwall, Germany, Hanoi, Memphis, New Zealand, Saigon, Siem Reap, Singapore, Tennessee, Vietnam

• Athenians

  Street scenes, Athens, Greece, June 2016

  dereksayer

  March 29, 2023

  cities, markets, people, restaurants, street photography

  Athens

• high heels

  from a streetcar in Memphis, Tennessee, 7 September 2013

  dereksayer

  March 27, 2023

  cities, people, street photography

  Memphis

• window shopping #1 (Amsterdam)

  I am far from the first to photograph shop windows. The camera captures what our brains, navigating the urban landscape, habitually filter out: the melding of the displays behind the glass with reflections from the street that produces beguiling and sometimes disturbingly surreal landscapes. Eugène Atget’s “Boulevard de Strasbourg: Corsets” (1912) and “Magasin, avenue des…

  dereksayer

  March 23, 2023

  artworks, cities, people, photographers, reflections, sex, shop windows, street photography, surrealism

  Amsterdam