Everyday London A Project for The Mayor’s Fund Andrea Hamilton
PART 1
Introduction Everyday London
Everyday London is a celebration of the world’s greatest city, the extraordinary spaces and people that make up its unique character. A photographic exploration undertaken on foot, it is a record of both the familiar and the overlooked, revealing the spectacular to be found in ephemeral moments of daily life. Hamilton’s images trace the year through the changing colours of its seasons and customs. London landmarks, hidden spaces and parks in the heart of the city appear alongside locations easily reached within a day trip: St Paul’s Cathedral, Bold Tendencies art project in a Peckham carpark, festivals in Hyde Park, quiet backstreets and days at Ascot Racecourse, among other sites. There is a shared and recurrent aspect to these snapshots — they are everywhere and nowhere, at once important and insignificant, specific and individual, yet somehow timeless. Andrea Hamilton works in the documentary tradition of Henri Cartier-Bresson, alive to the pursuit of the ‘decisive moment’. Walking among us with her camera strapped around her neck, she seizes upon these unstaged, unrepeatable moments as they occur, placing them in her frame as vivid cinematographic tableaux. She references artists ranging from street photographers such us Garry Winogrand or Martin Parr, to the painterly Elina Brotherus or filmmaker Sharon Lockhart. Hamilton captures the mysterious beauty of scenes that have the ability to trigger an often subconscious, universal emotional response. Everyday London aims to present the diversity of daily life in the city anew, a fresh eye on its inner conditions, its quirks and divergences. Publishing this body of work in aid of The Mayor’s Fund for London provides an exceptional opportunity to showcase and celebrate what is so special about this city, captured in images by award-winning artist Andrea Hamilton, while contributing to a vital network that supports young Londoners who will ensure its future as the greatest city on Earth.
Artist statement Nothing and Nowhere in Particular
I have always had a love affair with street photography as in a way it is the most pure form of traditional photography. With Henri Carter-Bresson we find the decisive moment, Jeff Wall tells us he sees the moment and then goes back and recreates it. Gregory Crewdson engages an entire film crew to create his magnificent narratives but in the end it all reduces down to the human spirit or the confrontation of a particular moment in time. Diane Arbus targeted her unusual subjects and got up close and personal. Everyday London is really a simple story about the love of photography in its most simple form. These images have luckily been captured because I tend to never leave home without a half decent camera. It is not about a particular shoot but rather if something special might happen by chance. I saw scenes unfold in front of me which were sometimes quite hard to believe. Other times, I capture just glimpses of things that fascinate me. On a personal note, I lost my mother to cancer six years ago and remember her telling me poignantly what really matters. It is not the material things at all, but simply being able to walk and feel the sunlight on your forehead or smell the blossoms. Today we use the phrase “mindfulness” a lot. Just being happy to be alive. Extraordinary pictures rarely happen by chance, this is why so many of the most incredible images today are staged. When the fantastic moment occurs, is the light in the right place, is the camera at the right angle? Rarely. When asked to try and find an image for every day of the year to show the changing seasons, I thought this was a unique approach to digging into an archive. To look at what I happened to shoot in my walks and daily rituals. I am indebted to a wonderful project called London Burning published by Transglobe and Thames and Hudson where I was privileged to shoot some of the top creative talents in London and had a behind the scenes look at their lives. This meant that my daily walk or “drift” to coin a phrase from the very talented painter and writer Laura Oldfield took me into the furthest reaches of London and I walked new and exciting streets each week as well as my usual destinations.
In a world where everyone is a photographer via their smart phones at least, I believe we all share one indelible challenge. To capture the magic in front of us. The universality of our shared existence is transcended momentarily. It can be a surreal moment, an exquisite light, a flash of movement but all have a particular universality to them that makes photography so appealing. For poet’s that cannot write or singers without a voice, photography is a medium that the rest of the world has embraced. This story may be about my London moments but it also universally about everyone’s and that is why we welcome people to share their thoughts. I had one of those magical moments that photographers experience when a scene unfolds in front of them and there is an instant internal pleasure when visual elements suddenly fall into place and present themselves. There was also the element of the unknown; I wasn’t quite sure what I was looking for – I had certain firm ideas and the location fulfilled these and importantly, added its own surprises. Andrea Hamilton
“Maybe the ‘trivial’ is just a failed version of the ‘everyday.’ The everyday, or the commonplace, is the most basic and the richest artistic category. Although it seems familiar, it is always surprising and new. But at the same time, there is an openness that permits people to recognize what is there in the picture, because they have already seen something like it somewhere. So the everyday is a space in which meanings accumulate, but it’s the pictorial realization that carries the meanings into the realm of the pleasurable.” Jeff Wall
As Seen On the Street Nico Kos Earle
In many ways, photography has never been more relevant, more historically significant or more existentially compelling. For most of us, looking has devolved into filtering the overspill of images collected on the screens we carry everywhere with us, whilst the real-world street view passes us by. Street photographers still committed to looking out at the bigger picture, and seeing into the moment, give us a chance through their work to appreciate what we have been missing. Often following their intuition in pursuit of an image that captures something essential about today’s human condition, or simply for the joy of ‘chasing colour’, photographers like Andrea Hamilton offer us the opportunity to step into that moment with them, and be reminded of the spontaneous magic in the everyday. Multiple award-winning artist Andrea Hamilton was chosen in 2015 as a finalist for the 9th Edition of Art Prize Laguna. One of the artworks selected by the jury came from a series of scenes at Ascot Racecourse that form part of a more ambitious project she has been developing over the last few years ‘under the shared concept of the spectacularity I saw in daily life. My main intention…was to create a series of pictures that feel like a lucid dreaming, impressions that evoke cultural peculiarities but also inspire a connected feeling.’ The fresh and compelling body of work presented in Everyday London, a snapshot of this wider ongoing project, showcases Hamilton’s instinctive awareness of colour, light and composition combined with a probing insight into her adopted city. Her reflex to shoot when the ordinary momentarily manifests as the magnificent and strange makes her one of the most exciting photographers in London today. Only one of the many genres of photography in which Hamilton excels – from portraiture to fine art – street photography has an immediate and honest impact, both for photographer and viewer, that is beguiling. Somehow, Hamilton manages to capture within the image the surprise or wonder she experiences whilst seeing and taking the shot – and on first sight, it grabs your attention. You feel it too.
Everyday London draws you into familiar London streets, connecting you to the moment and to the place that so many of us call home. Where once the streets of Paris and New York dominated the genre, London is having its moment now, prompted by its sprawling development, diverse multiculturalism, iconic new landmarks, thriving business community, artistic vitality and the spectacular array of cultural juxtapositions that form the fabric of daily city life. Street photography as a genre can be understood as the product of ‘an artistic interaction between a photographer and an urban public space’. It is distinguished from documentary photography and photojournalism by an essential difference in perspective: it is subjective not objective. Street photographers’ impressions and feelings towards a subject – what they notice and why – are key. They are motivated not to illustrate a premeditated narrative, but to go out in search of something. According to Lisa Hostetler, writing in the catalogue to the 2010 exhibition Street Seen, ‘their primary goal is expressive and communicates a subjective impression of the experience of everyday life in the city.’ Street photographers succeed when you want to follow – because they communicate through their images something that we had failed to notice around us. Some move almost invisible through a crowd and others break down the silent barriers to communication with strangers, establishing instant bonds in the making of an image. Andrea Hamilton navigates the length and breadth of London’s streets with the ease of someone who knows how to walk amongst peasants and kings: I continually seek new methods to represent life pictorially and the inner conditions and disturbances of normality. ‘The camera is an extension of my body,’ said Magnum photographer David Hurn. However, it attempts inevitably to weave elements of storytelling with efforts at faithful testimony.
Though the word ‘street’ suggests that the urban environment is a prerequisite backdrop, the genre is more about immersion and spontaneity, or what Henri Cartier-Bresson called the ‘decisive moment’: when form and content, vision and composition merge into a transcendent whole. Thus neither place not subject-matter defines this type of photography; rather, it is the photographer’s approach to the medium and how he or she chooses to move through public spaces – looking but also ready for something to coalesce in front of the lens – that lies at its heart.
The photographer hopes, in brief, to discover a tension so exact that it is in harmony. It is like a landscape into which all fragments, no matter how imperfect, fit perfectly. – Andrea Hamilton
January
Aerial view of London, 2014 JANUARY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
South Kensington, 2009 JANUARY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
“To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.“ – Elliott Erwitt
Hyde Park, 2014 JANUARY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Chelsea, King’s Road, 2013 JANUARY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Greenwich, 2015 JANUARY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Mile End Road, Stepney 2015 JANUARY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
“To want to understand is an attempt to recapture something we have lost.” – Peter Høeg
Untitled, 2013 JANUARY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Hyde Park, 2013 JANUARY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Deptford, 2015 JANUARY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
“The Thames is liquid history.” – John Burns
Chelsea Enbankment, 2013 JANUARY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
South London, Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2015 JANUARY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Shoreditch, 2015 JANUARY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Knightsbridge, 2013 JANUARY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
“This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.” – William Butler Yeats
Islington, 2015 JANUARY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Deptford, 2015 JANUARY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Hyde Park, 2014 JANUARY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Deptford, 2015 JANUARY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realizes an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.” – Virginia Woolf
Islington, 2015 JANUARY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
“January is here, with eyes that keenly glow, A frost-mailed warrior striding a shadowy steed of snow.” – Edgar Fawcett
Knightsbridge, 2015 Goldborne Road, 2015 JANUARY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Tooting Bec, Upper Tooting, 2015 JANUARY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Portobello, 2014 JANUARY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
“Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.” – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
White City, 2015 JANUARY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Hyde Park, 2015 JANUARY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Notting Hill, 2015 JANUARY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Battersea, 2015 JANUARY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Temple, 2015 JANUARY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
“The value of art is in the observer.” – Agnes Martin
Algate East, 2015 JANUARY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
North Kensington, 2015 JANUARY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Hyde Park, 2015 JANUARY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
North Kensington, Goldborne Road, 2015 JANUARY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Islington, 2014 JANUARY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
February
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.” – William Blake
Hyde Park, 2015 FEBRUARY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
Battersea, 2013 FEBRUARY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.” – Emily Dickinson
Hyde Park, 2015 FEBRUARY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
Old Street Station, 2015 FEBRUARY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
British Museum, 2014 FEBRUARY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
“London changes because of money. It’s real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive apartments they will, it’s money that changes everything in a city.” – David Bailey
Knightsbridge, 2015 FEBRUARY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
Fulham, 2014 FEBRUARY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
Shoreditch, 2015 FEBRUARY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
South Kensigton, Former Consulate of Iraq, 2013 FEBRUARY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
Fullham, 2015 FEBRUARY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
“I don’t exist. I’m not even here. I don’t exist. None of this matters.” – Riggan in Birdman The Movie
Westminster, 2015 FEBRUARY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
“In the theatre of the past that is constituted by memory, the stage setting maintains the characters in their dominant roles. And if we want to go beyond history, or even, while remaining in history, detach from our own history the always too contingent history of the persons who have encumbered it, we realize that the calendars of our lives can only be established in its imagery.” – Gaston Bachelard
South Kensington, Royal College of Music, 2015 FEBRUARY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
Wandsworth, 2015 FEBRUARY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
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Bermondsey, 2014 FEBRUARY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
“The one who observes becomes the one who is observed?” - Hans Ulrich Obrist and Paul Virilio
Brixton, 2004 FEBRUARY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
Westminster, 2015 FEBRUARY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
Ladbroke Grove, 2015 FEBRUARY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
“What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm – the relationship between shapes and values.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson
Over London, 2011 FEBRUARY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
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Chelsea, 2012 FEBRUARY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
Clerkenwell, 2015 FEBRUARY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
“The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.” – Anaïs Nin
Berdmonsey Street, Southwark 2015 FEBRUARY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
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Untitled, 2013 FEBRUARY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
Hackney, Andrews Road, 2015 FEBRUARY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
“We borrow from nature the space upon which we build” – Tadao Ando
Southwark, 2015 FEBRUARY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
Southwark, 2014 FEBRUARY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
Battersea, 2013 FEBRUARY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
Westminster, 2012 FEBRUARY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
March
“Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things” – Paul Cezanne
Bethnal Green, Columbia Road, 2015 MARCH 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Battersea, 2013 MARCH 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Camden Town, 2015 MARCH 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.”
– Charles Dickens
Thames, Battersea, 2015 MARCH 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
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The Serpentine, Hyde Park, 2013 MARCH 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Southwark, Borough Market, 2015 MARCH 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Belgravia, 2015 MARCH 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
“No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.” – John Donne
South Kensington, Brompton Oratory, 2015 MARCH 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Knightsbridge, Brompton Road, 2011 MARCH 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Barnes Elms, 2013 MARCH 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Battersea, 2012 MARCH 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Knightsbridge, 2013 MARCH 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
The Serpentine, Kensington, 2013 MARCH 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Hackney, London Fields, 2015 MARCH 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
“Photographic images absorb the whole of history and form a collective memory going endlessly round in circle” – Vilém Flusser
Knightsbridge, 2011 MARCH 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
“Art is a matter of picking up on the mundane and giving it form at a higher level of expression” – Edmund Teske
Kennington Lane, 2015 MARCH 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
The Serpentine, 2013 MARCH 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Bond Street, 2013 MARCH 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
“It’s nice, when taking pictures in the street, not to have to participate in any way in the stream of life passing you by. It makes me fell special to be there but not to be chatting, not to be shopping or not even to be heading for somewhere else. I feel like I am invisible to the passing crowds. This in turn leads to a loss of my sense of self, which is the finest feeling of all.” – Nick Turpin
Knightsbridge, 2011 MARCH 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Marylebone, Wallace Collection, 2013 MARCH 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Knightsbridge, 2011 MARCH 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Shoreditch, 2015 MARCH 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
“What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.” – John Berger
Knightsbridge, 2011 MARCH 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Battersea, 2014 MARCH 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
South Kensignton, 2013 MARCH 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Bethnal Green, Columbia Road, 2015 MARCH 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Borough Market, Southwark 2012 MARCH 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Kensington, 2015 MARCH 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Whitehall, Horse Guards, 2014 MARCH 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Clapham, 2013 MARCH 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Knightsbridge, 2015 MARCH 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
April
Holland Park, 2014 APRIL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Victoria & Albert Museum, Knightsbridge 2014 APRIL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Hyde Park, 2014 APRIL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced; but they Out-did the sparkling waves in glee: A poet could not but be gay, In such a jocund company: I gazed--and gazed--but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought: For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils.” – William Wordsworth I Wander’d Lonely as a Cloud
Hyde Park, 2015 APRIL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Ada Street, Dalston, 2014 APRIL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Natural History Museum, 2013 APRIL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
South Kensington, 2013 APRIL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
“I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them” – Diane Arbus
Peckham, 2012 APRIL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Peckham, 2012 APRIL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Green Park, 2015 APRIL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
“Weightless in water, swift as the wind, Subtle of purpose - a feather blown I go with my oarsmen where they will, My beautiful body and theirs all one.” – Mark Van Doren
Hammersmith Bridge, 2015 APRIL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Natural History Museum, 2013 APRIL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
“The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting” – Andy Warhol
Peckham, 2012 APRIL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Hackney, 2014 APRIL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Peckham, 2012 APRIL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Natural History Museum, 2013 APRIL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Crayford, Europe Gym, 2014 APRIL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
South Kensington, 2013 APRIL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Battersea Park, 2014 APRIL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Battersea Bridge, 2014 APRIL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
“I’m not crazy about the term ‘street photography’ to describe what I do, because it’s not necessarily done on the street. The pictures can be taken on a farm, at the zoo, in an office, and so on. Let’s say we consider the general category of ‘unposed pictures of people’ (or sometimes animals or even inanimate objects when they happen to be possessed by human souls), That’s what I like to do: play with ordinary reality, using unposed actors who are oblivious to the dramas I’ve placed them in.” – Richard Kalvar
Knightsbridge, 2014 APRIL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
“When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.” – Georgia O’Keeffe
There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough - there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph. – Robert Frank
Holland Park, 2014 APRIL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Southwark, 2014 APRIL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
“There are many realities” – Louise Bourgeois
Vauxhall, 2015 APRIL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Brixton, 2012 APRIL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Peckham, 2012 APRIL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Hyde Park, 2014 APRIL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Lynn AC Boxing Club, Wells, 2014 APRIL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
“The spontaneous is the most beautiful thing that can appear in a picture, but nothing in art appears less spontaneously than that.” – Jeff Wall
Hyde Park, Prince Williams and Kate Middleton’s Royal Wedding, 2011 APRIL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Battersea, 2014 APRIL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
May
Broadway Market, 2014 MAY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Princess Charlotte of Cambridge, 2015 Peckham, 2014 MAY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Broadway Market, 2014 MAY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
“It takes a very long time to become young.” – Pablo Picasso
Columbia Road Flower Market, 2014 MAY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
“We know photographers make frames, but we deeply believe they can also create frameworks” – Susan Meiselas
Hyde Park, 2015 MAY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
“I love Trafalgar Square, it has really gorgeous architecture and because of its different levels and the fountains it’s a joyful urban space.” – Katharina Fritsch
Trafalgar Square, 2014 MAY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Rotherhithe, Sands Film Studios 2015 MAY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Brompton Road, Knightsbridge, 2013 MAY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
“Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.” – Walker Evans
Southwark, Cross Bones Graveyard, 2014 MAY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
South Kensington, Prine Albert Memorial, 2014 MAY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Columbia Road Flower Market, 2014 MAY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Bond Street, 2013 MAY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Battersea, 2011 MAY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Knightsbridge, 2013 MAY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Vauxhall, 2014 MAY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
“Art is, for me, the process of trying to wake up the soul. Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep.” – Bill Viola
City of London, St Paul’s Cathedral, 2014 MAY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Piccadilly, 2013 MAY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
The Serpentine, Hyde Park, 2012 MAY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Wandsworth, 2014 MAY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Chelsea, 2014 MAY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
St. Paul’s Churchyard, City of London 2014 MAY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Hyde Park, 2015 MAY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
“I accept that all photography is voyeuristic and exploitative, and obviously I live with my own guilt and conscience. It’s part of the test and I don’t have a problem with it” – Martin Parr
Wandsworth, 2014 MAY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Temple, 2014 MAY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Hackney, Columbia Road Flower Market, 2014 MAY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
South Bermondsey, 2014 MAY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
City of London, St. Paul’s Cathedral, 2014 MAY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Walworth, 2015 MAY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Tate Modern, 2013 MAY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Burgess Park, Walworth 2014 MAY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Embankment, 2014 MAY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
June
Millbank, 2014 JUNE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Mayfair, George Restaurant, 2014 JUNE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Whitechapel, Gherkin, 2011 JUNE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
“When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.” – Agnes Martin
Islington, Central Saint Martin’s Degree Show Protest, 2015 JUNE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Shoreditch, 2015 JUNE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Oxford Street, 2014 JUNE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
St. James Park, 2014 JUNE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Trooping the Colour: The Queen’s Birthday Parade, 2014 JUNE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Peckham, 2014 JUNE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
“I never had a ‘project.’ I would go out and shoot, follow my eyes—what they noticed, I tried to capture with my camera, for others to see.” – Helen Levitt
Mayfair, Grosvenor House Hotel, 2014 JUNE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Tower Hamlets, 2014 JUNE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
St. James Park, 2014 (one week later) JUNE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Peckham, 2014 JUNE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Kensington, Portobello, 2014 JUNE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Cartier Polo, 2015 JUNE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
2009 JUNE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Untitled, 2015 JUNE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
“To me, the magic of photography, per se, is that you can capture an instant of a second that couldn’t exist before and couldn’t exist after. It’s almost like a cowboy that draws his gun. You draw a second before or after, you miss and you’re dead - not them. To me, photography’s always like that.” – Mario Testino
Ascot, 2014 JUNE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Peckham, 2014 JUNE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Peckham, 2014 JUNE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Cambridge Heath Road, 2014 JUNE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Fitzrovia, 2014 JUNE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
“By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.” – Samuel Johnson
JUNE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Greenwich, 2014 JUNE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
“Space is something that you have to define. Otherwise, it is like anxiety, which is too vague. A fear is something specific. I like claustrophobic spaces, because at least then you know your limits.” – Louise Bourgeois
Millbank, 2014 JUNE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Royal Hospital Chelsea, Masterpiece, 2014 JUNE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Hyde Park, 2014 JUNE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Battersea Park, 2015 JUNE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Tower Hamlets, 2014 JUNE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Wimbledon, 2014 JUNE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
“The equation is a simple one: streets = people. And it is people’s behavior that most interests me: actions, reactions and interactions; emotions, body language, eccentricities, humour – and those rare moments of visual surrealism that can make one’s day.” Bryn Campbell “My approach has not differed whether I have been on assignment as a photo-journalist or pursuing a personal project. The values for me are the same: a mix of humanism and aesthetics.” Bryn Campbell “I’m not crazy about the term ‘street photography’ to describe what I do, because it’s not necessarily done on the street. The pictures can be taken on a farm, at the zoo, in an office, and so on. Let’s say we consider the general category of ‘unposed pictures of people’ (or sometimes animals or even inanimate objects when they happen to be possessed by human souls), That’s what I like to do: play with ordinary reality, using unposed actors who are oblivious to the dramas I’ve placed them in.” Richard Kalvar “There’s a tantalizing, asymptotic convergence between reality and a photograph, but the two never seem to get together. A picture looks like reality but it is completely abstracted from it: it’s frozen in time, flat, silent, and ignorant of everything outside the frame.” Richard Kalvar “The choice of the moment eliminates the continuity before and after, which is present in real reality.” Richard Kavlar “ But photographs sure look like reality, and it’s this complex and impossible relationship between the two that opens up all kinds of wonderful possibilities. As long as you don’t manipulate what is going on… you can create scenes that are both believable and absurd. Impressions are all.” Richard Kavlar “There is something about the making of photographs in public places that resonates with me more than any other kind of photography,” Nick Turpin “It’s nice, when taking pictures in the street, not to have to participate in any way in the stream of life passing you by. It makes me fell special to be there but not to be chatting, not to be shopping or not even to be heading for somewhere else. I feel like I am invisible to the passing crowds. This in turn leads to a loss of my sense of self, which is the finest feeling of all.”
Nick Turpin “I think there is a new chapter unfolding in the history of street photography. The technology that our cameras have would have been unimaginable even a half century ago.” Eric Kim From Artists: ‘Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.’ Pablo Picasso. “Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork... we all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly.” Agnes Martin “When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.” Agnes Martin “Happiness is being on the beam with life - to feel the pull of life.” Agnes Martin “The value of art is in the observer.” Agnes Martin “I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.” rida Kahlo From Poets: The sky gathered again And the sun grew round that very day. So it must have been after the birth of the simple light In the first, spinning place, the spellbound horses walking warm Out of the whinnying green stable, On to the fields of praise… Dylan Thomas “Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.”
Virginia Woolf “I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realizes an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past” irginia Woolf “Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.” Virginia Woolf “Forever is composed of nows.” Emily Dickinson “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.” Emily Dickinson “The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.” Emily Dickinson “If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.” Rene Descartes “Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.” - Walker Evans “The photographs are not illustrative. They, and the text, are coequal, mutually independent, and fully collaborative. By their fewness, and by the importance of the reader’s eye, this will be misunderstood by most of that minority which does not wholly ignore it. In the interests, however, of the history and future of photography, that risk seems irrelevant, and this flat statement necessary.” - Walker Evans “The spontaneous is the most beautiful thing that can appear in a picture, but nothing in art appears less spontaneously than that.” - Jeff Wall “Maybe the ‘trivial’ is just a failed version of the ‘everyday.’ The everyday, or the commonplace, is the most basic and the richest artistic category. Although it seems familiar, it is always surprising and new. But at the same time, there is an
openness that permits people to recognize what is there in the picture, because they have already seen something like it somewhere. So the everyday is a space in which meanings accumulate, but it’s the pictorial realization that carries the meanings into the realm of the pleasurable.” - Jeff Wall “They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” - Andy Warhol “The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting” - Andy Warhol “It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.” - Andy Warhol “For the world is movement, and you cannot be stationary in your attitude toward something that is moving.” - Henri Cartier-Bresson “Extract the eternal from the ephemeral.” - Henri Cartier-Bresson “Even when she walks one would believe that she dances.” - Charles Baudelaire “Inspiration comes of working every day.” - Charles Baudelaire “It takes a very long time to become young.” - Pablo Picasso “Go and do the things you can’t. That is how you get to do them.” - Pablo Picasso “Anything new, anything worth doing, can’t be recognized.” - Pablo Picasso “Be the first to see what you see as you see it.” Robert Bresson
“Practice the precept: find without seeking” - Robert Bresson “Nothing is absolute, everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.” - Frida Kalho “Space is something that you have to define. Otherwise, it is like anxiety, which is too vague. A fear is something specific. I like claustrophobic spaces, because at least then you know your limits.” - Louse Bourgeois “There are many realities” - Louse Bourgeois “All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.” - Susan Sontag “When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.” - Georgia O’Keeffe “This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.” - Plato “Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.” - Rainer Maria Rilke “What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters.” - Charles Baudelaire “Are you a lucky little lady in the City of Light? Or just another lost angel... City of Night?”
- Jim Morrison “Memory’s images, once they are fixed in words, are erased,” Polo said. “Perhaps I am afraid of losing Venice all at once, if I speak of it, or perhaps, speaking of other cities, I have already lost it, little by little.” - Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities “London is on the whole the most possible form of life.” - Henry James, The Complete Notebooks of Henry James “Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub.” - Jack Kerouac, Lonesome Traveler “In people’s eyes, in the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and the uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men shuffling and swinging; brass bands; barrel organs; in the triumph and the jingle and the strange high singing of some aeroplane overhead was what she loved; life; London; this moment of June.” - Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
“It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.” - Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume I “The one who observes becomes the one who is observed?” - Obrist, Hans Ulrich and Paul Virilio. “Conversation Between Paul Virilio and Hans Ulrich Obrist.”in: LJudmila.org. Paris. June 8, 1991. “Twenty bridges from Tower to Kew Wanted to know what the River knew, Twenty Bridges or twenty-two, For they were young, and the Thames was old And this is the tale that River told” - Rudyard Kipling “Unreal City,
Under the brown fog of a winter dawn, A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many. Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled, And each man fixed his eyes before his feet. Flowed up the hill and down King William Street, To where St Mary Woolnoth kept the hours With a dead sound on the final stock of nine. There I saw one I knew, and stopped him crying: ‘Stetson! You, who were with me in the ships at Mylae! That corpse you planted last year in your garden, Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year? Or has the sudden frost disturbed its bed? Oh keep the Dog far hence, that’s friend to men, Or with his nails he’ll dig it up again! You! hypocrite lecteur!-mon semblable,-mon frere!” - T.S. Eliot, Selected Poems
“The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.” - Oscar Wilde “A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, / Dirty and dusty, but as wide as eye / Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping / In sight, then lost amidst the forestry / Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping / On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy; / A huge, dun cupola, like a foolscap crown / On a fool’s head – and there is London Town. “ - Lord Byron “I like the spirit of this great London which I feel around me. Who but a coward would pass his whole life in hamlets; and for ever abandon his faculties to the eating rust of obscurity? “ - Charlotte Brontë “There are two places in the world where men can most effectively disappear — the city of London and the South Seas.” - Herman Melville “I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.
“So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring “They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” - Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol “Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.” - Coco Chanel “It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince “Time is an illusion.” - Albert Einstein “You may delay, but time will not.” - Benjamin Franklin “It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.” - Edgar Allan Poe “Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.” - Jean-Paul Sartre “There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.” -T.S. Eliot “Time will explain.” - Jane Austen, Persuasion “Phileas Fogg, having shut the door of his house at half-past eleven, and having put his right foot before his left five hundred and seventy-five times, and his left foot before his right five hundred and seventy-six times, reached the Reform Club.” - Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days
“It seems thus possible to give a preliminary definition of walking as a space of enunciation.” -Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life “I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was easier to think if I was walking and doing something or seeing people doing something that they understood.” - Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast “I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.” - T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock I wandered through each chartered street, Near where the chartered Thames does flow, A mark in every face I meet, Marks of weakness, marks of woe. In every cry of every man, In every infant’s cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forged manacles I hear: How the chimney-sweeper’s cry Every blackening church appals, And the hapless soldier’s sigh Runs in blood down palace-walls. But most, through midnight streets I hear How the youthful harlot’s curse Blasts the new-born infant’s tear, And blights with plagues the marriage-hearse. London - William Blake Green is the plane-tree in the square, The other trees are brown; They droop and pine for country air; The plane-tree loves the town. Here from my garret-pane, I mark The plane-tree bud and blow, Shed her recuperative bark,
And spread her shade below. Among her branches, in and out, The city breezes play; The dun fog wraps her round about; Above, the smoke curls grey. Others the country take for choice, And hold the town in scorn; But she has listened to the voice On city breezes borne. A London Plane-Tree - Amy Levy Everyday London: WINTER: JANUARY 01.01 - “To want to understand is an attempt to recapture something we have lost.” ― Peter Høeg, Smilla’s Sense of Snow 01.02 - The reactions of the human heart are not mechanical and predictable but infinitely subtle and delicate. Daisaku Ikeda 01.03 – To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them. Elliott Erwitt 01.04 – The Thames is liquid history. John Burns (5,6 done) 01.07 - Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress. Charles Dickens
(8 done) 01.09 - Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born. (Dr. Dale E. Turner) 01.10 - The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to create order out of the desperate confusion of our time. (Ludwig Mies van der Rohe) 01.11 ? A bridge quote 01.12 It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see. Winston Churchill 01.13 - There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough - there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph. Robert Frank 01.14 - This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air. William Butler Yeats 01.15 01.16 - It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary. David Bailey 01.17 - The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists. Charles Dickens 01.18 - “I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realizes an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past” Virginia Woolf 01.19 - “There is something about the making of photographs in public places that resonates with me more than any other kind of photography,” Nick Turpin 01.20 - “There’s a tantalizing, asymptotic convergence between reality and a photograph, but the two never seem to get
together. A picture looks like reality but it is completely abstracted from it: it’s frozen in time, flat, silent, and ignorant of everything outside the frame.” Richard Kalvar 01.21 – already in shot … an eye for an eye 01.22 – Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. (Ludwig Mies van der Rohe) 01.23 - A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. William Blake 01.24 - “ But photographs sure look like reality, and it’s this complex and impossible relationship between the two that opens up all kinds of wonderful possibilities. As long as you don’t manipulate what is going on… you can create scenes that are both believable and absurd. Impressions are all.” Richard Kavlar 01.25 - “Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.” Virginia Woolf 01.26 - “If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.” Rene Descartes OR a quote by Warhol but too obvious here 01.27 - “The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.” Emily Dickinson 01.28 - “The value of art is in the observer.” Agnes Martin 01.29 – (quote already in shot) 01.30 – already done 01.31 – FEBRUARY: 02.01 – The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. William Blake 02.02 -
02.04 - “The equation is a simple one: streets = people. And it is people’s behavior that most interests me: actions, reactions and interactions; emotions, body language, eccentricities, humour – and those rare moments of visual surrealism that can make one’s day.” Bryn Campbell 02.06 - London changes because of money. It’s real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive apartments they will, it’s money that changes everything in a city. David Bailey 02.07 – DONE 02.08 - By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show. Samuel Johnson 02.09 - What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. John Berger 02.10 – A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know. Diane Arbus 02.11 - I don’t exist. I’m not even here. I don’t exist. None of this matters. Birdman the movie 02.12 - I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost. V. S. Naipaul 02.13 – Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world. Arnold Newman 02.14 – something about funny valentine? 02.15 – done 02.16 - To me, the magic of photography, per se, is that you can capture an instant of a second that couldn’t exist before and couldn’t exist after. It’s almost like a cowboy that draws his gun. You draw a second before or after, you miss and you’re dead - not them. To me, photography’s always like that. Mario Testino
02.17 02.20 - Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man. Edward Steichen 02.21 - Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything. Aaron Siskind 02.22 - To select, combine and concentrate that which is beautiful in nature and admirable in art is as much the business of the landscape painter in his line as in the other departments of art. (J. M. W. Turner) 02.23 “It may be necessary to stand on the outside of one is to see things clearly.” ― Peter Høeg, Tales of the Night MARCH 03.03 - I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today’s existence. Robert Mapplethorpe 03.04 It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. Charles Dickens 03.05 - I love driving around east London - it’s always full of surprises. Actually, I don’t drive myself - I like to be driven. Zaha Hadid 03.06 – IN SHOT 03.07 Autumn: No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face. John Donne Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony on
a moonlit night and look down upon the peaceful silver curve of the Thames with its dark bridges. Ernie Pyle
A dictionary of Famous Quotations: LONDON 23:66 “Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.” MR.WOODHOUSE Ib, Ch. 12 AUSTEN, Jane, 1775-1817 88:28 “Pitt is to Addington As London is to Paddington.” The Oracle CANNING, George, 1770-1827 95:13 “Provided that the City of London remains as at present, the Clearing-house of the World.” Speech, Guildhall, London, 19 Jan. 1904 CHAMBERLAIN, Joseph, 1836-1914 112:54 “John Gilpin was a citizen Of credit and renown, A train-bnd captain eke was he,
Of famous London town.” John Gilpin, 1 COWPER, William, 1731-1800 119:33 “This is a London particular…A fog, miss.” Bleak House, Ch. 3 DIKENS, Charles1812-1870 121:66 “Mr Weller’s knowledge of London was extensive and particular.” Ib, Ch. 20 DIKENS, Charles1812-1870 125:27 “London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.” A study in Scarlet DOYLE, Sir Arthur Conan, 1859-1930 129:75 “London, Thou art the flower of cities all!” The Three Musketeers DUMAS, Alexandre, 1803-1870 177:25 “You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.” Ib JOHNSON, Samuel, 1709-1784 178:47 “Our scene is London, ‘cause we would make know, No country’s mirth is better than our own.” The Alchemist, Prologue JONSON, Ben, 1573-1637 230:20 “Go down to Kew in lilac-time, in lilac-time, in lilca-time,
Go down to Kew in lilac-time (it isn’t far from London!) And you shall wander hand in hand with love in summer’s wonderland; Go down to Kew in lilac-time (it isn’t far from London!) The Barrel Organ NOYES, Alfred, 1880- 1958 235:53 “London Bridge is boken down, My fair lady.” Namby Pamby, Henry Carey, 1725 NURSERY RHYMES
“Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connexion with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.”
237:64 “Pussy cat, pussy cat, where have you been? I’ve been to London to look at the queen. Pussy cat, pussy cat, what did you there? I frightened a little mouse under her chair.” Songs for the Nursery, 1805 NURSERY RHYMES
- Rainer Maria Rilke
“There’s a tantalizing, asymptotic convergence between reality and a photograph, but the two never seem to get together. A picture looks like reality but it is completely abstracted from it: it’s frozen in time, flat, silent, and ignorant of everything outside the frame.” Richard Kalvar
369:41 “Hell is a city much like London – A populous and a smoky city.” Peter Bell the Third, Part 3, Hell, 1 SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe, 1797-1822
“Drinking tea the morning fog drifts away”
“Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.” Vladimir Nabokov
Robert Gibson
“Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.” Dr. Dale E. Turner