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LONDON TO BRIGHTON: SOME PHOTOGRAPHS OF NOTHING MUCH HAPPENING IN THE EARLY...
A tube station somewhere on the Bakerloo-Jubilee line. (ETA: Charing Cross.) People who have grown up in the age of digital cameras might not be aware that a roll of film used to consist of 24 or 36...
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PHOTOGRAPHS OF TOKYO 1979
From 1979 to 1980 I lived in Tokyo and took a great many photographs, both in colour and in black and white. As is always the way, the pictures I thought were boring and never bothered to print up now...
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BELGIAN BARS
For the past couple of years, I have been (surreptitiously, usually with the camera app on my iPad Mini) taking photographs of Belgian bars and the beer I drink in them. Here is a selection of the...
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PASSAGE DU GRAND-CERF, PARIS
Not long ago, when I was in Paris, I was walking through the 2nd arrondissement on my way to UGC Ciné-Cité at Les Halles when it began to bucket down with rain. I wasn’t in a rush, so I took refuge in...
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SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT FINDING VIVIAN MAIER
I wrote about photographers in the movies for the Telegraph website, to tie in with the UK release of the documentary Finding Vivian Maier. My first draft, however, didn’t go to plan; what I wrote...
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SHELFIES: 40 YEARS OF BOOKS & BOOKSHELVES
Notting Hill, 1985-1989 Everyone loves shelfies. What bibliophile doesn’t like sneaking a peek at the titles ranged on other people’s bookshelves? And who doesn’t like offering other book-lovers a...
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PARIS DECEMBER 2015
Le Rallye Dante, Rue Dante. As has been my habit for the past few years, I spent Christmas in Paris, where the festival is treated like any normal bank holiday. It’s traditional to pig out (usually on...
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SKULL PICTURES
This is a selection of photographs I have taken of skulls, of photographs I have taken that happened to have skulls or skeletons in them, and of self-portraits I have taken of me holding a skull, or...
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PHOTOGRAPHERS IN THE MOVIES: A DYING BREED?
Finding Vivian Maier is a fascinating documentary about a recently discovered “street photographer” that raises as many questions as it answers. But it’s not just the story of the nanny whose...
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SUE BARNES 1953-2014
The sad news has belatedly reached me that the artist Sue Barnes, my friend and onetime flatmate, died five years ago. I think I last saw her in 2004, but we hadn’t seen that much of each other since...
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