Two days spent in London on 9th. - 10th. March 2017, mainly for the occasion of "Emergence From The Underground", a film & video screening dedicated to the memory of Mike O'Pray, founder of the Film & Video Umbrella. The programme was screened at the BFI South Bank/National Film Theatre, introduced by William Fowler, Steven Bode and myself. Aside from attending this event, I visited the Wolfgang Tillmans exhibition at Tate Modern and Eduardo Paolozzi at The Whitechapel Gallery. Both good exhibitions. And in between I walked the streets of London, more or less aimlessly, occasionally pausing to photograph small details encountered en route. Photos below, not in chronological order. At the Tate bookshop I acquired, and then rapidly read, Jon Day's "Cyclogeography: journeys of a London bicycle courier". A good addition to my growing library of books about places/walking/exploring etc.
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| Reflections in buildings at Bankside, behind Tate Modern |
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| Looks like a near miss, but not really... |
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| Menu board of a traditional London cafe near Bankside |
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| And the interior of the same cafe. There used to be hundreds of places like this, now very few remain. |
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| The start of a "paper trail" of discarded stuff along the South Bank from Bankside to Waterloo |
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| Deflation |
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| Composition 1 |
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| Cup 1 |
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| Cup 2 |
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| Cup 3 |
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| Composition 2 |
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| Composition 3 (NME today) |
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| Composition 4, leaning mattress and cup |
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| Home for someone, an urban oasis squeezed between luxury apartment buildings. |
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| Composition 5, casual sculpture |
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| Introduction to the screening at NFT |
