Tag: Prague

• unexpected encounters #13: sun throat cut

  The body will continue to demonstrate mortality as the fate of all humans. It is for this reason that any reference to human animality gravely affects those who dream of its antithesis.   They take offence not only at any mention of animality in life, but in science, literature, and the arts as well, as this…

  dereksayer

  April 1, 2024

  adverts, artworks, cities, photographers, reflections, sex, shop windows, shopping malls

  Amsterdam, Arles, Paris, Prague

• unexpected encounters #11: in the zone

  War is beautiful because it inaugurates the dreamed-of metallization of the human body … War is beautiful because it combines gunfire, barrages, cease-fires, scents, and the fragrance of putrefaction into a symphony. War is beautiful because it creates new architectures, like those of armored tanks, geometric squadrons of aircraft, spirals of smoke from burning villages.…

  dereksayer

  March 26, 2024

  architecture, cities, modernism, monuments

  Chicago, London, poetry, Prague, Shanghai

• statuesque #2 (Prague)

  all images shot in Prague, various dates

  dereksayer

  September 3, 2023

  architecture, artworks, cities, museums, sculptures

  Prague

• window shopping #7 (Prague +)

  All images shot in June 2004 in Czech Republic. Location is Prague unless otherwise indicated. #4 + 5 Karlovy Vary #2 Mariánské Lázně, #6 Karlovy Vary #2 Karlovy Vary

  dereksayer

  September 1, 2023

  adverts, architecture, artworks, cities, murals, museums, night, reflections, shop windows

  Czechia, Prague

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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