Is this a liminal space? It’s definitely in-between (the street and the subway platform). The blacked-out former advertising hoardings give it an abandoned air.
Escalation
Category: Interior
Sanitation
Peggy
Gallery Space
Here Today
Sunlight
The very last images from my time in Farnham, more views of the bright sunlight streaming into our apartment.
Light and Shadow
A couple more of the images I collected in Farnham of the bright sunlight flooding our apartment. The one above, shot on Ilford HP5 at 6 x 4.5 cm and the one below shot digitally.
Shaping Glass
As part of October Craft Month (Farnham is a World Craft Town) UCA hosted the Shaping Glass exhibition in the James Hockey Gallery in October, which I was lucky enough to see a little before it opened. Below are some quick snaps I took in the gallery.
Light and Shadow
One of the things I miss most about Farnham is living in a bright, sunny apartment. A couple of the last (digital) light play images I shot there.
Phoenix Art Space @ the Fringe
During my hour of freedom in Brighton, we walked down to the Phoenix Art Space where some of my colleagues from Work Show Grow were exhibiting as part of Rethinking Eastern Europe. On another wall, I saw the set of images above, I am because you know me – A letter to womanhood. Note, it’s yet another exhibition where I found the opportunity to photograph myself in a mirror.
Light Play
The play of sunlight on the walls in the mornings is fantastic. I took to photographing them on film but haven’t yet gotten the processed film scans, so I started taking them with a digital camera as well. Here are the digital ones.
Salisbury Cathedral
After our 6½-mile walk, we had lunch at a pub and proceeded through the Harnham Water Meadows (shown in previous posts) to the Salisbury Cathedral. Lots of postcard-type images inside the cathedral, below (click any of the images to see them full-sized – if you’re seeing this on the web, not in email).
Modern Romance?
In my Modern Romance project I have tried to show both the companionship and solitude of a long-term, aging couple. As I experiment with extending it, I thought of showing the couple pursuing individual pastimes. I’m not sure…
RIVERS OCEAN, THE LANDSCAPE OF MISSISSIPPI’S COLORS
On my final day in Arles I went to see Nicolas Floc’h‘s marvelous exhibit. When I first entered the large space, I was somewhat disappointed. On the left-hand wall were several large, framed prints, each of a single colour. Opposite, on a diagonal partition bisecting the room was a grid of smaller framed prints with different colours in each column and each row showing a top-to-bottom darkening gradient of the image above it. These were all images taken in different spots and depths of the Mississippi. But, as you turn a corner, to view the other side of the partition and the other 2 walls of the space and a small, windowed alcove, you discover something much more interesting. There are large B&W prints of spots travelled to along the Mississippi and its many tributaries and feeder rivers with a tall stack of colour images showing the colours of light in the water at different depths at that location.
Transcendence
After the Musée Réattu I did finally find my way to Vague to see the Transcendence show.
Musée Réattu
Hunting for the Transcendence show at Vague, I came upon the Réattu Museum, its courtyard and windows on the river (Rhône). I came upon a well-known French photographer with whom I was not familiar, Jean-Claude Gautrand, who documented many important stories for the latter half of the 2oth century and into the 21st. Click on images below to see them larger.
Tower Steps
In the last post on La Tour I had been trying to see Joel Coen introduce his curation of Lee Friedlander’s photographs but the crowds were too big and I was turned away. I returned the next day to see the show without Joel and capture some more of the stark geometry of the place.
Lord of Things
Michel Medinger creates still life images from constructions of objects he has collected. Learn more about this show here.
Neither give nor throw away
Sophie Calle’s well known project, The Blind, was spoiled by flooding and subsequent mold. At Arles, she gave it all a final resting place, together with some other items of hers that she no longer wanted but wasn’t prepared to throw away. Read all about it here and see more below (click to enlarge).
Arles Reflections
