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Around Liverpool (50)

April 30, 2024
Smithdown Road. Liverpool 2022.
Outside a pub, Wellington Road. Liverpool 2022.
Waiting for a bus on Picton Road. Liverpool 2023.
Campaigning outside a One Stop Shop closed down by the Council on Picton Road. Liverpool 2022.
Distant view of the Anglican Cathedral. Liverpool 1882.
Closer view of the Anglican Cathedral. Liverpool 1978.
Knife and fork cafe on Smithdown Road. Liverpool 1979.
Walking down Lodge. Liverpool 1982.
Two Trade Unionists sharing a joke on workers memorial day. Liverpool 2022.
Inside the Black Cat pub on Smithdown Road. Liverpool 2022.

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Water And Sun

April 25, 2024

The mobile reflective rhythms of sunlight bouncing off water can have a calming and hypnotic influence on the mind. The same with watching the flames in a burning fire at night. Humans have been staring at such things from time immemorial and each second of the experience is unique to the viewer but also, paradoxically, part of a common visual heritage dating from ancient times. Fading tropical sunlight on a pool in Java was the inspiration for this piece.

‘Water and Sun’ – mixed media on paper 2024.

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World Streets (45)

April 22, 2024
Evening meal. Laos 2018.
Smiling market Trader. Laos 2018.
Entrance to Budapest market 2003.
Smiles in in Barcelona. December 2017.
Smiling Chef. Laos 2018.
Budapest market 2003.
Market Trader with child. Laos 2018.
Bus on a bridge. Budapest 2003.
Walking across a bridge. Budapest 2003.

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Whitechapel Dreams

April 19, 2024

Have you ever considered the millions of people who’ve walked down a particular street over the years? This piece attempts to explore that. The woman on Whitechapel Road (photographed in the 1980s) is no longer with us but I can easily imagine her when I walk down Whitechapel market in the East End of London. The image combines day and night and different decades. Imagination has its own special reality that is capable of exploding the concept of time. What is time anyway?

‘Whitechapel Dreams’ – mixed media on paper 2024.

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World Streets (44)

April 16, 2024
Man in Melaka. Malaysia 2019.
Haircut in Melaka. Malaysia 2019.
Haircut by the river in Sylhet. Bangladesh 1990s.
Afternoon Snooze in Melaka. Malaysia 2019.
Whitechapel Road c.1985
Having a rest on Whitechapel Road. East London, 1985.
On a ‘Grab’. Hanoi 2019.
Street scene. Hanoi 2019.
Holding hands. Barcelona 2017.
Having a rest. Hanoi 2019.
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Resting in the sun on Lawrence Road. Liverpool, May 2018.

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