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London Nights Photography Exhibition Review

The exhibition at the Museum of London spans the period from the start of the 20th Century (pretty much the dawn of photography) to the present day, covering the genres and styles that have been popular throughout this period, including:

• Pictorialism
• Portraiture
• Conceptual
• Film.

The cohesive objective of the exhibition is to show how both the night-time character of London has changed over this period, and how its depiction through photography has also changed as the art form has developed.

Most contemporary is the image by Tim Peak taken from the International Space Station.

My objective with this post is to encourage anybody who hasn’t been to go.  If you’ve been and disagree with me, I would love to hear from you, either through the comments box below or through the social media channel of you choice right.

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El Nino Graffiti in Granada Spain

If Al Hambra is the official No. 1 tourist attraction in Granada, the the Street Art Graffiti of El Nino and others is certainly the unofficial leader.  It is impossible to miss.  On our arrival in Granada, the taxi from the train station to the hotel took us past walls lining major roads entirely covered in the highest quality pieces.  All of it, apparently, painted illegally; although  many of the works are signed and the most prolific artist is the famous “El Nino de las Pinturas” (“the boy with the pictures”) or “El Nino” for short.

I hope anybody reading this blog post will enjoy the images, and if they subsequently find themselves in Grenada, will seek out these works rather than immediately joining the ranks of the 10s of thousands of others at the Al Hambra.

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