My wishes for peace stayed in Israel

I have been away for a while. From my blog and from London. Here's some memories I picked up on the way from flip flops to winter coats...

David Benjamin Sherry

1981 Born in Woodstock, New York and lives and works in New York.

   Given his dramatic mountainscapes infused with otherworldly light (the colours are cast at exposure or later during printing, and the kind of cast depends on his mood), one might expect David Benjamin Sherry to respond to the question of key influences by naming great American photographers like Ansel Adams or Minor White, but instead 
he cites a roster of painters or installation artists who work with colour and light – among them Robert Irwin, John McCracken, Ann Truitt and Paul Thek, along with artists who “take flight from nature”, like Robert Smithson and Georgia O’Keeffe.

   When Sherry drove through the American West he liked to have Brian Eno on his headphones and when he paused he liked to have the poems of Walt Whitman close at hand. Sherry is, in a word, a romantic – though, he hastens to add, “an extremely forward thinking one!” One of his romantic attachments is to analogue photography. (Sherry stresses that he has nothing against digital picture-making – it just isn’t for him.) But it isn’t nostalgia that drives his attachment to the medium of colour film. He simply believes that there is still “territory left untravelled” along that route, and he intends to explore it.

   

Phoebe Rudomino

Phoebe Rudomino is a commercial diver and underwater photographer based at the Underwater Stage at Pinewood Studios, the only facility of its kind in the world. She specialises in behind-the-scenes underwater stills and video for feature films, TV and commercials. 
I chose the most feminine picture to show you but she has done a lot of work with athletes and plenty of other known people.

Keira Knightley

Myleene Klass 

Still from a advertisement for The Quays shopping center

Gloucester Cathedral / Open West

If you happen to be around Gloucester city any time of your life do not miss a chance to go and see Gloucester cathedral. I was totally blown away by its Norman and Gothic architecture. It has one of the biggest stained glass windows in the world which is absolutely gorgeous. In matter of fact all the details are fabulous.

Fragment of the altar

South cloisters with fan vaulted roof was used extensively in the Harry Potter film series 

We were lucky enough to catch the Open West Exhibition in the cathedral which is an annual open competition and exhibition inviting work from national and international artists practicing contemporary and conceptual art in the fields of painting, installation, film and sound, textile, photography, ceramics, print, drawing, performance and sculpture.

Gurmit Kaur 'Inside Out - Umbilical Cord' (foam)

Saad Qureshi 'Others' (paint on plastic on wood)

Dorcas Casey 'Birds'  (pen nibs, wire and metal objects)

Happy Shrove Tuesday!

One of the best days of the year next to Christmas and Birthdays as you can go crazy with naughty food and there is no excuses! I have had my dose of pancakes with Nutella and raspberry jam already. So it has been a beautiful beginning for my day!
Bring on the pancake race!

xx

Narnia in London

Yes it is truly unbelievable but I have just experienced my very first proper, proper snow in London. Sure there has been some funny thing on the ground that English people call snow and all the traffic stops and there is a general chaos all over the city. But snow that makes this lovely sound when you step on it.. never before! Here is some pictures to share from Waterlow Park, Highgate Woods and Alexandra Palace.

Highgate Cemetery

White Muswell Hill rooftops