2 September 2026 – Hungry Eye Fair – Game Time

Even though I am part of the show this time around, I took a first look at the work of my fellow exhibitors and was amazed by the diversity of what is on offer. As always, I won’t pretend to like everything, but the wealth of photography on display is simply...

31 August 2026 – Just Like Heaven

It was to the tune of “Just Like Heaven” by The Cure that I attended the mounting of my wall at Hungry Eye Fairy 2026 in Amsterdam. A happy moment, and the realisation of a goal: exhibiting my work in a friendly, welcoming, yet thoroughly professional environment....

26 August 2026 – Liu au Tibet

I had already visited an exhibition by Liu Feiyue in Leiden reported here, and this gentleman is clearly not one to sit still: he is now showing again, this time at Sijthoff, again in Leiden, under the title “On the Earth, photos of West China”. And what a...

21 August 2026 – Levinthal’s Myth

David Levinthal is one of those photographers who makes you question what you are actually looking at. Using toys, dolls and the miniature figures of my youth, he constructs carefully staged scenes that look almost like documentary photographs, playing with our ideas...

15 August 2026 – Levitt be: a finger in the nose

I levitated with Helen Levitt in November 2021 in London as reported here. It was an opportunity offered to discover a magnificent Helen Levitt retrospective at the equally magnificent Photographers’ Gallery in Soho, tracing her decades-long observation of everyday...