Reminiscence of a Guilty Past
I dont know about anyone else but I often wake up from dreaming feeling vaguely guilty about something or other! Here I offer tangible and clear-cut evidence of a guilty past. Caught on grainy 8mm film, the significance of the incidence is merely that I have thrown a cricket ball through the window of the Continue…
A Dark Picture for a Dark Story
The Laocoon, the high priest of Neptune, tried to warn the city of Troy of the plot by the Athenians to invade using a wooden horse to conceal their soldiers. The God Poseidon, hearing of this sent a massive sea-serpent to strangle the Laocoon and his sons. The famously vigorous Greek sculpture dug up Continue…
The Belvedere Torso
This powerfully truncated Greek sculpture from the 1st Century BC sits astride its plinth in the Vatican Museum in Rome. I was lucky to find it partially illuminated by a shaft of light from one of the upper windows of the magnificent gallery that houses it. Shot with ‘old-school’ Rolleiflex and HP5.