Venice in Paris
Who said you had to be in Italy to see a proper Venetian Carnival? As our Paris contenders were honing their skills and donning their new costumes (some taking more than 1,000 man hours in the making),...
View ArticleLaurent Galili: A Santur (or Hammered Dulcimer) Maestro
On our way to the Pantheon, a 15 minutes’ walk from where we live, we stopped by this Iranian crafts shop we know well for buying a superb Sirjan kilim carpet a few years ago. There we were greeted...
View ArticleMezzo Soprano (Catherine Rossignol)
Concert, Orsay Symphonic Orchestra, Survilliers, 2013
View ArticleCrusties’ Feet (B&W)
No!! This isn’t Australia (where people are used to walking barefoot I was told). This picture was taken in Saint Girons in the Pyrenees, a town which is jam-packed with crusties and neo-hippies from...
View ArticleCountry Pageant in the Ariege (“Autrefois le Couserans”) – 1
“Couserans” is the name of a province within the district of Ariege, some sort of indomitable Gauls type of area in which things look, to the untrained eye, exactly how they used to be in the past....
View Article2 Wedding Shots
A little while ago, I took a whole set of pictures from Jian and Nicolas’s wedding. Jian is from Beijing and we have known her for 6 or 7 years now. She has kindly agreed to let me share some of her...
View ArticleGirlie Speed Camera (Black & White)
I spotted that guy yesterday while browsing the Saint Ouen “Les Puces” flea market. He was selling trinkets and chit chatting with colleagues around him. On his counter sat prominently a mock speed...
View ArticleVenice in Paris
Who said you had to be in Italy to see a proper Venetian Carnival? As our Paris contenders were honing their skills and donning their new costumes (some taking more than 1,000 man hours in the making),...
View ArticleMeet Sergio Pomodoro
Meet Sergio Pomodoro (not his real name), an Italian chap I met at a meet up yesterday afternoon. We were sitting on the ground, trying to catch our breaths after an exhausting tour of artists’...
View ArticleExperimenting with light
Today’s theme is experimental and nice Krista let us choose what we wanted so I went for an experiment of mine at the former St Vincent de Paul hospital (aka "grands voisins" until it disappears next...
View ArticleBack to Black (B&W)
Versailles 2014 rowing regatta. March 2014. The post Back to Black (B&W) appeared first on The Antimuseum in Paris (and beyond).
View ArticleConcert-going Indoor Sunbathers
Paris. June 2014. The post Concert-going Indoor Sunbathers appeared first on The Antimuseum in Paris (and beyond).
View ArticleGirlie Speed Camera (Black & White)
I spotted that guy yesterday while browsing the Saint Ouen “Les Puces” flea market. He was selling trinkets and chit chatting with colleagues around him. On his counter sat prominently a mock speed...
View ArticleExperimenting with light
Experimenting with light is in essence what every photographer is doing even without knowing. The Oxford reference dictionary explains why: etymology of ‘photography’ From photos (ϕοτοσ), light, and...
View ArticleLa vie en rose or singing in the rain in Montmartre
Paris and its love songs, l’amour, toujours l’amour as the saying goes. La vie en rose is Edith Piaf’s most celebrated song. A few weeks ago we took a stroll around Montmartre with a young street...
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