It must be London!
I've been very busy since I returned home. Having a great time, and managing to see my friends and family for the first time in year (felt like I'd never been away which was wonderful) whilst getting on with business bits. Been going to a few events and met a lot of interesting people and possible clients.
Borough Market – Looks dirty and decrepit, which may well be true, but I was fascinated by watching the traders at work, and exploring as the place is a lot more deserted than when I was last here over a year ago. I didn't take any photographs of the traders yet, but I am considering approaching someone to start a documentary project on the place.
Litter and pigeons – looking down from a footbridge near St Pauls.
This is a giant steel box billed as a sculpture at the Tate Modern. One side was open allowing you to walk inside, the two figures you see in the image are standing by it with me shooting from inside giving you some sense of the scale. It was really, really big, and raised on stilts so you could go underneath as well.
There is often a lot of good things on at the Tate, and I've been to some stella exhibitions* there, but the most telling thing about the place to me is that when you get on the escalator on the ground floor expecting to end up on the 1st, you instead arrive on the 2nd. No explanation or apology is offered.
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Street and Studio in 2008 stands out. It was an extremely well curated look at the history of street photography, and studio photography and how the two photographic disciplines from opposite ends of the photographic spectrum have developed and influenced each other. There were over 350 photographs exhibited, which would normally be to many and an information overload and result in loss of impact, but this was carried by the sheer quality and variety of the work, and the highly intelligent and informative way it was used.
