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Tag: photography

  • In the nick of time

    I’ve been wanting to see Juergen Teller’s Woo! exhibition for longer than I can remember. I finally made my way over there last Saturday, on the show’s penultimate day. When I got there I was greeted with a larger-than-life, quite literally in-your-face shot of Vivienne Westwood’s vagina (of which I’ve spared you the evidence). Despite this slightly…

  • “Sometimes love isn’t firecrackers, sometimes love just comes softly”

    The focus of my recent admiration has been well and truly honed in on one brand and hush now, don’t tell anyone, please, but it’s a wedding brand – The Lane. It’s their mixture of well-chosen photography that you can relate to, plus words that simply charm my inner hippie to the ground. I very…

  • Loved for an altogether different reason

    There is no nook, no space, where one can’t find inspiration. Sometimes I find myself drifting off – years down the line I’m still the ‘daydreamer’ school teachers reprimanded me for being. Midst reverie yesterday, it was Aussie singer-songwriter Angus Stone’s new video – Monsters –  that caught me in its mysterious and rather beautiful web. The…

  • Icons and inspiration

    Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about icons. Not necessarily those pivotal figures like Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn – whom without a doubt, are indeed icons – but more-so photographs, items – anything you personally consider to be iconic and inspirational. A small collection of illustrative images has been growing upon my desktop. Here…

  • Walking is for jerks

    …at least according to Japanese photographer Natsumi Hayashi. I spotted her inspirational work over on My Modern Met (thanks for sharing, folks) and couldn’t resist from adding a note or two myself. Natsumi spends her time ‘levitating’ in photographs. It’s a genius idea, and one that requires phenomenal skill behind the camera – not to…