A thousand words about Photo London
Walking around the beautiful galleries of Somerset House last weekend demonstrated the unique power of photography when artfully printed and exhibited - the experience often took my breath away. The setting and people watching might have had something to do with it - Somerset House really is the most special place. I went on three separate days to the fair (shout out to my sister Sheila who got me a VIP pass), and managed to cover most of the fair in that time. I have photography in my blood - it was my late father's profession and it's still how I feel most creative.(Do also check out Habie Schwarz' photos on Instagram from our Sunday visit there together). So it was three days to reflect on the kind of images of the world that we can now capture, and how we use them in film. Pictures that are worth a thousand words (the length of this blog post). Images that - if used in a documentary might be fleeting, or in some way a background to 'the story' or something that a protagonist was s
22 May 2025