I was on a walk around the Glasgow University campus in search of interesting scenes that include white combined with another colour. The idea was to simplify the style of my urban photos. I’ll never be a minimal photographer but aiming for a more laconic expression wouldn’t hurt.
My previous experience of large scale street art was limited to the taxi tour of Belfast murals John and I took several years ago. Those enormous Irish wall paintings were edgy, highly political and emotionally charged – the tour brought out John’s childhood memories of living there in the seventies….
I am not an architectural photographer, no I am a gardener. I am a photographer of urban life. So when we visited the Library of Birmingham terrace gardens, the Discovery Terrace and the Secret Garden, during the last week’s 4 Squares Weekender I was more curious to see up close…
Sonic art installation Breaking Reverie unveiled at the launch of Dumfries Music Conference 2018 programme at the newly refurbished Oven in Dumfries
Watching Argyle Street Gallery mural by Smug being walled off as the demolition of the building block commences
During my urban photo walks I often set out to challenge myself with one camera one lens restriction. This time I focused on the ephemera in the heart of Glasgow, exploring coincidences or chance encounters in the area near St Enoch. I noticed a set of interlinked shopping trolleys from…
Of the two of us, it’s I, due to my art history degree, that is more likely to tiptoe around a pile of bricks at the Tate Modern and believe the sign saying that it is the greatest work of art of all times. So, when I read out from…