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Double Reflection

November 1984 During one of my first walks along the Regent’s Canal, on a wall under…
Cages and Frames

October 1984 Spider monkeys, London Zoo Looking back on the slides taken in this month, although…
A Few Steps Towards Depicting Strangers

September 1984 Rue St Louis en l’Île The renowned photojournalist Philip Jones Griffiths was fond of…
Actually Existing Sculpture

August 1984 Opera Garnier, Paris: Harmony, Poetry, Music (left), Instrumental Music (right) This photo, taken at…
The Ballad of Reading Bus Station

July 1984 March 1984 Among Martin Parr’s collection of boring postcards, there is a view of…
Limping About Venice

Under sunshine, the city forms a hallucinatory vision on the glittering water, a cavalcade of rich…
Wishful Thinking

I took this photograph on the common land near my parent’s home, almost exactly forty years…
Formalism on the Rocks

As a child, my parents took me to St Ives in Cornwall, where my grandmother lived…