Attempting to de-pigeon the café
Snapped by Johnny Peckham in the West End, showing the moment when a bird-phobic assistant took on the job of corralling a pigeon out of a café.
This photo sums up everything about life in central London. The pigeon is of course a metaphor for – well, I don’t need to spell it out, do I? Brilliant again by Peckham.
Suave Constanza, art critic for the Ealing Zoo & Fine Art Weekly
Chaps – Instant Street Photography
Black and white Chaps – “I took this photo on Saville Row where a classic car show was in full swing. It sums up the busy, stylish nature of the street.”
Street photography – Bird lady
Bird Lady is an instant photograph from Johnny Peckham.
”I was walking the Thames path out in East London when I happened upon this lady surrounded by birds. I have never seen anyone so happily feeding pigeons. There’s a lot to learn from her attitude.”
6cm x 6cm image
Mounted and framed in 8” x 8” black frame
New expressionist piece by Godwin Sands
A corking image from Godwin Sands, doyen of expressionist photogrodraw. Looking out over the Thames from Barge Walk near Hampton Court on a sunnyish afternoon at the end of summer, is quite a mouthful of a title, but it expresses perfectly what is in the image. Oh those last days of summer! How sad they make us humans feel!
New work from Ptolemy Bognor-Regis III
Untitled (Two hours stuck on a plane at Gatwick with no air-conditioning)
A good example of the well-known dictum suffering makes great art. Poor Ptolemy created this work as he sat, roasting, in a plane that had a problem with its engine. The mental anguish of flying in a machine that you have been told doesn’t work properly – how well he has captured that emotion in this piece. The colors zing and zang off each other, the central orange bespeaking the overwhelming question, viz, should I stand up and insist to be allowed off this plane. Mirrored by the lightest of greens, the universal symbol for Yes.
Brave Ptolemy stayed on the plane. The good news is they made it unscathed to Paris. That’s not as good as it sounds as they were supposed to be going to Casablanca, but out of the turmoil we have gained a modern masterpiece. Ptolemy we salute you, and – though you have sworn never to travel by plane again – we hope you make it back from Paris soon.