Mature but tasty

A medium-sized OAP and a green salad, please.  Mmm.

A man at rest and a man arrested

At the Southbank I photographed a man who, after eating a sandwich, stretched out on a bench for 40 winks.  Moments later I was in Tate Modern where I drank a coffee, looked at art and admired the view. Then I remembered Ai Weiwei currently detained at the Chinese government’s behest precisely because he is the sort of a man who might eat a sandwich and enjoy an unscheduled snooze (or whatever he fancied) and think to hell with it.  I knew Tate Modern had put up a sign to promote Ai Weiwei’s release from imprisonment, but where was it?  Finally I found it at the top of this iconic building. I can only add a small voice to the clamour for his freedom and that of others in China who are free spirits and have something to say for themselves.

Prize winner!

I entered this photo to the Bicentenary Friends’ Exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery (England’s oldest public gallery, designed by the incomparable Sir John Soane) and it won a prize!  The photo is of a gentleman called Hilroy, known to his friends as Honey.  After the photo appeared on a website a few years ago, I was contacted by the family. I learned that Hilroy had died shortly after I photographed him.  I also discovered what a fine man he was… artist, musician, carpenter and style icon.  To read about the exhibition, click on:

http://dulwichonview.org.uk/2011/04/26/south-london-women-artists-win-lionesses’-share-of-the-prizes/