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Through The Lens Here – Paint Outside

When I saw this piece recently, on a wall by a canal near Victoria Park in East London, it certainly stood out. Nestled among the usual pile up of signatures and tags, the wood for the trees of graffiti – it stood out immediately. So striking with it’s three colours and the beautifully striated striping […]

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Through the Lens Here – People/Tableau

This young man was in Kennington Park in south London while I was taking a lunch break there and I enjoyed this shot as it came through, the moment in which he is facing in one direction while looking in another, as if a momentary consideration of different directions. Nicely framed by the large tree […]

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Through the lens here – the Line of Difference

Looking through some photo’s recently and it occurred to me that some of them could be defined in terms of the idea of the line, incurring transformation in the frame, or otherwise differentiating a space, relationships, forms. The photo below is what crystalised this idea. I was walking during a lunch break and couldn’t believe […]

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Through the lens here – Photographs in East London

I was taught photography basics with an SLR in my twenties when I worked with a lady whose husband was a professional. I was working in a bank at the time (which I did for 6 months) and by some quirk of things, we realised that her husband’s photography studio/shop was a couple of doors […]