Opulence

Royal Pavilion, Brighton

The Royal Pavilion filled us with conflicting feelings: on the one hand it was gorgeous, ornate, beautiful, rococo, inspiring beauty; on the other its luxury and opulence were disgusting condemnations of the inequity in human societies.

Joel Meyerowitz and Maggie Barrett

Somerset House, London

Was fortunate enough to attend a screening of Maggie Barrett and Joel Meyerowitz in Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other at Photo London, with them and the film-making couple in attendance for a discussion and Q&A afterwards. Here, as it was all over, you can see Joel, as always, Leica in hand shooting. The film was quite moving, as were some of the comments afterwards and it was directly relevant to my project Modern Romance.

Floaters

Charleston, Lewes

We visited Charleston in Lewes to see the Vanessa Bell exhibit. It was bookended by the Quentin Bell sculpture above and the Koak exhibit, below.

“The Dreamer (2025) presents a woman in suspension – self-contained, serene, and held in a peaceful dream state. Her body is sculpted in concrete, a material often associated with foundations and stability, yet here taking on a surprising tenderness and warmth. The figure reimagines Quentin Bell’s sculptural series of levitating women, and Louise Bourgeois’s arched figures, as an embodiment of powerful vulnerability and radical dreaming.”
– Ella Slater, from the brochure accompanying Koak, The Window Set.

Bread & Salt

Bread & Salt, Barrio Logan, San Diego

Whilst in Barrio Logan we visited Bread & Salt, “a 45,000 square-foot gallery and experimental center for the arts with strong community ties,” and I naturally found a variety of aspects of the space to photograph.

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