Camera lucida

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

outtakes #2 (Faltan 43)

Mexico City, February 2018 + February 2019

dereksayer

July 16, 2023

architecture, cities, graffiti, monuments, museums, people, street photography

Mexico City

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

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

blues + yellows #2

#1 Johor Bahru #2-3 Siem Reap #4-5 Hanoi Jan-Feb 2016 #1-3 Saigon Feb 2016 #4 Frankfurt March 2016 #1-2 Frankfurt #3-4 Berlin #5-7 Prague (Karlín) March-April 2016 #1-4 Prague (Karlín + Žižkov) #5-6 Prague-Brno rail journey April 2016 Calgary, 2016-2017 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah February 2023 Kuching, Sarawak February 2023

dereksayer

June 9, 2023

artworks, cafés, cities, colors, food, graffiti, Luci, markets, museums, people, rail journeys, street photography, trains

Berlin, Brno, Calgary, Cambodia, Frankfurt, Hanoi, Johor Bahru, Kota Kinabalu, Kuching, Malaysia, Prague, Sabah, Saigon, Sarawak, Siem Reap, Vietnam

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

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

rencontres #2 (off the wall)

These photographs were taken in the LUMA Arles Parc des Ateliers in September 2014. The Parc des Ateliers is a former railroad wasteland covering an area of 27 acres that was first operated by the Paris-Lyon-Méditerranée (PLM) company, which became the SNCF in 1938. The LUMA arts campus, which hosts exhibitions, performances, conferences and other…

dereksayer

May 24, 2023

architecture, artworks, cities, exhibitions, people, photographers, street photography

Arles, Provence

rencontres #1 (délices d’été)

Founded by Lucien Clergue and others in 1970, Les Rencontres d’Arles is one of the world’s great annual photography festivals. We have been fortunate to visit it several times. These images were shot in 2014.

dereksayer

May 24, 2023

artworks, cafés, cities, exhibitions, graffiti, murals, people, shop windows, street photography

Arles, Provence