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  • 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
  • are, bure, boke #2

    The Japanese Provoke photographers’ slogan “are, bure, boke,” or “rough, blurred, out-of-focus” applies to many of my images. Some of these effects are intentional, more are not. Many people would dismiss these simply as “bad pictures,” but another view is possible: Photography is painting with light! The blurs, the spots, those are errors! But the errors…

    dereksayer

    May 21, 2023
    adverts, Americana, artworks, cafés, cities, Ex Situ, exhibitions, food, graffiti, hotels, museums, night, people, photographers, restaurants, sculptures, shop windows, street photography
    Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, Marathon, Mexico City, New York, Sabah, Texas
  • Little Hanoi, Prague

    There are currently over 80,000 Vietnamese citizens and Czech citizens of Vietnamese origin living in the Czech Republic. They form the largest ethnic minority in the country (after Slovaks and Ukrainians) and the third-largest Vietnamese community in Europe. The Vietnamese are the only significant non-white community in Czechia other than the Roma. The Sapa Trade…

    dereksayer

    May 19, 2023
    adverts, cafés, cities, food, markets, people, restaurants, shop windows, street photography
    Prague
  • 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
  • those awful toe rings (Americana #1)

    All images shot in Venice Beach, California, April 2002

    dereksayer

    May 16, 2023
    adverts, Americana, food, people, posters, sex, shop windows, street photography
    California, Los Angeles
  • 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
  • red zone

    #1 Café Slavia, Prague #2 Philadelphia, April 2008 #3-4 Diana, New York, April 2008 #5 Prague, September 2015 Beijing, April 2012 Languedoc (Pézenas + Agde), September 2011 #1-2 Agde, September 2011 #3 Malacca, January 2006 #4-6, Calgary, 2016-17 #1 + 6 Calgary 2017 #2-5 New Orleans, April 2010 Calgary, 2017-18 #1-2, New York, January 2011…

    dereksayer

    May 11, 2023
    adverts, architecture, cafés, cities, colors, Luci, markets, people, reflections, restaurants, sex, shop windows, street photography
    Beijing, Calgary, China, Languedoc, Malacca, Malaysia, New Orleans, New York, Philadelphia, Prague, Shanghai, Singapore
  • (in perfect harmony)

    #1 Diana, New York, April 2008 #2 London summer 2001 #3 Marfa, TX, April 2011 #4 Little India, Singapore, December 2005 #5 Paekakeriki, New Zealand, December 2000 #1-2 Kaeo + Kawakawa, New Zealand, November-December 2000 #3 Vermilion County, LA, March 2014 #4 Terlingua, TX, April 2014 #1 + 2, Marfa, TX, April 2014 #3 Whangerei,…

    dereksayer

    May 10, 2023
    adverts, Americana, cafés, cities, murals, people, rural, street photography
    Banff, Beijing, Calgary, Cambodia, China, Hanoi, Kota Kinabalu, London, Louisiana, Malaysia, Marfa, New York, New Zealand, Prague, Sabah, Siem Reap, Singapore, Terlingua, Texas, Vietnam
  • our excellent gastronomic journey in Singapore, Johor, Sabah, and Sarawak

    January 27 – February 21, 2023 Singapore: #1 roti canai at 3.00 a.m. at all-night diner on Bencoolen Street #2 Malay breakfast at Putra Minang restaurant, Bencoolen Street #3 wonton noodles at Tiong Bahru market #4 Chilli Padi Nonya Restaurant, Joo Chiat Place #5-6 white pepper crab at hawker center Singapore: #1-3 Hainanese chicken rice…

    dereksayer

    May 9, 2023
    cafés, cities, food, markets, museums, restaurants
    Borneo, Johor Bahru, Kota Kinabalu, Kuching, Malaysia, Sabah, Sarawak, Singapore
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