After yesterday’s post, I was looking through my files and realised that I’ve taken more photos of the Eiffel Tower than I thought I did! Here are some that I took while on the same side of Paris as the tower, i.e. the Left Bank, la Rive Gauche.Taken with Lomo LC-A + expired Fuji Sensia…
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It was a sunny afternoon in 2011 when I spotted this set of Space Invaders hiding by a staircase on l’île aux Cygnes with la Tour Eiffel in the background.I had visited my friend Kaori & her newborn girl at her apartment and was on my way to a doctor’s clinic in the 16th arrondissement…
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I was eight when my mum decided that our family would start going to church – we had always been free-thinkers and didn’t pray to any particular god. Thus began my weekly struggle to get out of bed at an ungodly hour of 7 in the morning for Sunday class, followed by mass. The saving…
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Behind this wall lies the former premises of Keith & Henderson in Brussels, where high-quality fabric was produced and used to make bespoke suits such as those along Seville Row in London. I pass this building frequently as it is just round the corner from my home and I have always been attracted to the font…
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I spent a few hours today editing a press release and reading about Art Nouveau / Jugendstil / Seccession styles. Before I moved to Europe, I barely knew or even heard of these art movements. In Singapore, I grew up surrounded mostly by buildings of the Brutalist or Post-Modernist styles, with a few in colonial…
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Date: 3 September 2011 Location: Mong Kok, Hong Kong I took this photo on the first night we arrived in Hong Kong from the window of our teeny weeny room in Ah Shan Hostel in Mong Kok. After prying open the window, I stuck my chunky DSLR out of the window after ensuring that I had…
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