Category: Photos
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Somerset House launch
Thanks to everyone who came out to Somerset House for the launch event there last Tuesday! Really fantastic evening, with lovely friends from my writing group there, plus loads of people from around the creative arts at Somerset House and my work at the Institute for the Future of Work. Roped my two into doing…
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Cathedral of the Pines
If you happen to be around London over the next couple of months, I’d highly recommend going to The Photographers’ Gallery near Oxford Street to catch this (rare) exhibition of Gregory Crewdson’s new series of photographs. And, though they look more like paintings by Hopper, these are photographs. The technical set-ups for each shot require Hollywood…
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Jesus is my Homeboy | iD | Prostitutes and Gifts
A really nice series of images from David LaChapelle for iD magazine (ht Barry Taylor) What I like about them, as Barry says, is that the new lens with which these images have been shot forces us to reappraise scenes from the gospels that have become over-familiar and domesticated. The story of the woman washing…
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Thoughts on a New Government
(Brown writes his letter wishing David Cameron well – from a great set of photos on his last hours here) The waiting is over. We have a new government, what some are calling the ‘ConDems’. My feelings are mixed. They range from huge disappointment and concern at the return of a Conservative administration, to relief…