Hackney. 05.11.2025.

Interesting retrospective exhibition of Edward Burra in Tate Britain. His landscapes have an other-worldly aspect that makes me want to be walking on that land. #art

Impressive quality of work by this year’s students. I would encourage everyone to give it a visit!

Impressive quality of work by this year’s students of the uni of Westminster MA in photography and emerging media. I would encourage everyone to give it a visit! At Ambika P3, in their Marylebone building just opposite Baker Street tube station.

Ed Adkin’s exhibition at the Tate Britain in London is one of the best I’ve seen in some time.

The problem with it is that there are so many ideas and emotions contained there, that you need to visit it a few times.

If you are into photography art and looking for something to read, David Bate’s Photography won’t disappoint !

This is in Tate Modern’s shop but it is online too.

A few moments from the last week on the Northern coast of Galicia, Spain.

More images taken last weekend for the series on parks on London suburbs. This one is in Bethnal Green, so arguably not quite the suburbs. Same Welta 6x6 camera and still looking for those atemporal images portraying, hopefully, the sense of spaces away from the capitalist race-to-nowhere outside.

The Photographers Gallery, London: new work of Cristina de Middel follows on her previous work, but it also feels fresh. It documenta the Mexican communities alongside the US border. It manages to avoid falling into the known stories around it, while still touching on those stories of emigration.

I’m in the Photographers Gallery, London, mainly to see Peter Mitchell’s exhibition. I love it. I specially for the little stories he tells in the wall cards accompanying each picture. But then, I went to the shop to buy the catalog and … it doesn’t include those captions !!!??? Why!?

“Objects do not go into their concepts without leaving a remainder behind” - Adorno quoted by Jane Bennet in Vibrant Matter.

This was the starting point for a series of images, and thinking, and writing, still in its early stages. An example bellow.

I capture in these images not what I see but what I don’t: the closed spaces of others, light emanating from lives I am not part of, but I wish I could peek at for a moment. Instead, I take a picture discretely and move on. The imagined world on the other side of the window accompanies me, briefly

I’m making a series about the small parks in the suburbs of London. Places that are often rundown like their grey concrete surroundings. I like London suburbs, the ones where gentrification hasn’t reached and life is not an Instagram scene after another.

This pile of dead seaweed on a beach in Spain reminded me of the ink blotches that are used in psychology to uncover unconscious feelings. So let’s play that game:

This reads to me like an animal shape of some sort. After a few seconds I see a seal diving, or better still, a siren. Yes. Or hydra?

I’m experimenting to make digital images look less digital. In this case, I took the photographs through a partially greased (with petroleum jelly) piece of glass

The Cotswolds, where I live. Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty….

There are two big problems with that label: the “Natural”, because there is none of it here; and the “Beauty”, because why is the environment measured by aesthetic values?