Most mornings once I sit down to write down a submit for >Re:PHOTO I begin by looking out on My London Diary for occasions I photographed on that exact day (or moderately the day two or three forward when I’ll schedule the submit to look.)
Sometimes there could also be one thing else I really feel moved to write down about – some new improvement in pictures, discovery concerning the historical past of pictures, moral debate or cataclysmic occasion – however these appear to come back up much less often than they used to, although I’m not completely certain why this ought to be.
Maybe it’s as a result of I spend extra time now my very own previous work, digitising photographs I made on movie within the Seventies, Eighties and Nineties and worrying about what’s going to occur to all this work after my demise and moderately much less on going out, taking new work and assembly different photographers. Covid meant that for an extended interval there have been few exhibitions to go to, and I haven’t but obtained again into the behavior.
My bookshelves have lengthy all been full and overcrowded and I seldom purchase new books except they’re by private pals, and have cancelled my subscription to most of these costly magazines I might by no means convey myself to throw away – the cabinets as soon as allotted to them are additionally full. I’m starting additionally to marvel about the way forward for this massive library – whether or not to try to arrange an on-line bookshop to promote it, or to attempt to discover some worthy establishment to reward it to.
Luckily virtually all the posts in My London Diary give their date someplace making it simple to find the photographs I took on July 19 from round 1999 till 2021 utilizing the Freefind search field on lots of the web site’s pages. Although within the early years of this era once I was nonetheless utilizing movie there have been many occasions that didn’t make the location as I hadn’t digitised them, and the search by some means misses the occasional factor.
However looking for ’19 Jul’ and ’nineteenth July turns up occasions in 2008, 2014, 2015, 2017 and 2019 and I open the pages from these years and look via them to see what I photographed on these days. This offers me a selection of issues to write down about, both choosing one or two of the twelve occasions, or about all these I did on a specific day.
So how do I select? Maybe I get rid of some matters I do know I’ve already written about too usually or too not too long ago. I don’t wish to rant yet one more time – a minimum of for some time – on Israel’s assaults on Gaza and seasonal occasions just like the Swan Upping which occur on a specific day of the week maybe don’t advantage multiple submit via the 7 dates on which they will happen.
Then there are some occasions I’ve little or no to say about and others the place I feel the images are moderately run-of-the-mill. Very sometimes some the place what I want to say could be legally unwise.
As we speak I can’t make up my thoughts, so right here I’ve determined to submit a single image from every of the twelve, along with a caption that hyperlinks to the submit.
So you possibly can select if you wish to learn extra about any of them – there are extra footage and textual content about them which I wrote on the time I took them on My London Diary.
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