Public nudity
How are images valued and censored differently on urban walls and social media walls? #freethenipple
Surface habitats
Fun challenge: check for what exactly gives this away as an outdoor surface, what are the features that indicate that the collection of materials and images you see here belongs to the public urban realm.
Repeat photography from Leake Street London
A neat little series showing how the same wall changed over six consecutive days. Taken many years ago as part of the 100 Days of Leake Street photo project.
Making space together
Surface inscriptions make good company for one another. Paint, paper, render, dust, weather patina, glue, wood, bacteria. All making space together
Texture and pattern
Rough, smooth, ribbed, matte, with cavities, pits, voids, cracks, and blisters - we need a comprehensive vocabulary of surface textures.
Surface memories
I started photographing walls and surfaces more than fifteen years ago and I can still remember where each photo was taken when I see it. This must be somewhere off Brick Lane in London, 2011.
6 shades of green
Sometimes surfaces are aesthetically pleasing just like abstract art is. Other times they are not.
Beautiful surfaces are not superior, more important, or more worthy of attention than other, distressed ones.
Painted surfaces live
The magic is always in the joints and in the cracks.
Painted surfaces live.
Street poles
Never stored, because these are lowly signs, minor signs, fleeting posters drenched by rain, posters to be plastered over, posters that are dated. And yet, now that we're faced with them, time itself comes flooding back…
White walls series #1
Clean white surfaces never exist in our cities, yet their imaginary remains prominent and oppressive. Dirty walls are not only disorderly in their appearance, but they also represent an obstacle in the way of progress, so much so, that non-whiteness becomes criminal, and writing on walls…