London – Page 2 – Camera lucida

greenery

kauri forest, Northland, New Zealand November 2000 #1 Siena March 2001 #2 Tokyo fish market September 2010 #3 Philadelphia April 2008 #4 Houston July 2011 #5 Whangerei, December 2000 #2 Prague June 2004 Mariánské Lázně June 2004 Amsterdam July 2004 Singapore January 2006 #1-2 Garstang, Lancashire #3 Sissinghurst, Kent June-July 2013

dereksayer

April 26, 2023

cafés, cemeteries, cities, colors, food, landscape, Luci, markets, people, rural, sculptures

Amsterdam, Garstang, Houston, Lancashire, London, Mariánské Lázně, New Zealand, Philadelphia, Prague, Siena, Singapore, Texas, Tokyo

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

diverted traffic

I photograph to record objective and subjective situations that I consider to be fundamental. [The] inner model is not an autonomous product of our subconscious, but it is the projection of the movement of objective reality within us … which is not a rigid and dead set of facts surrounding our unsteady subjects, but reality…

dereksayer

March 28, 2023

adverts, cities, photographers, posters, reflections, shop windows, surrealism

London

diagonals #1

Barcelona, 2002 London (#1 + 3, 2001), Nîmes (#2, 2002) California April 2002 (#1 San Francisco, #2 + 3 Venice Beach) Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas. Building designed by Tadao Ando, 2002. Image #1 was shot inside Richard Serra’s sculpture “Vortex” (2002). Photos July 2010 Mexico City, February 2019 Singapore, June 2022

dereksayer

March 20, 2023

architecture, cities, geometries, modernism, murals, sculptures, shopping malls

Barcelona, California, Fort Worth, London, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Provence, San Francisco, Singapore, Texas

statuesque

Barcelona, April 2015. 1st image is Georg Kolbe’s statue “Dawn” in Mies van der Rohe’s (reconstructed) Barcelona pavilion. Mexico City, February 2018. Parque México (Fuente de los Cántaros, [Fountain of the Pitchers] by José María Fernández Urbina), Museo Soumaya, Palacio de Bellas Artes, street in Condesa district. Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, England, April 2018 Wrest Park…

dereksayer

March 17, 2023

adverts, artworks, cities, exhibitions, graffiti, monuments, murals, museums, photographers, posters, sculptures, shop windows

Barcelona, London, Mexico City, Sevilla, Wrest Park

Brick Lane, 2015

Whenever we are in London (where I was born) we try to visit Brick Lane in Whitechapel, an area we have watched over the years gentrify with mixed feelings. But so far, the ever-changing graffiti remains a reliable constant. These images were shot on June 20, 2015.

dereksayer

March 13, 2023

cities, food, graffiti, markets, murals, people, restaurants, street photography

London