cornwall in the springtime. dad’s seventieth birthday, hiking, sailing, spring flowers.
camera: canon eos 3
lens: canon l-series 1:4 24-105mm
film: fujichrome provia 400x
scanner: nikon coolscan 4000ed
twenty-six pictures from a sublime day’s escape on the tiny island of lindøya in oslo fjord. clear skies, motionless air, golden sunshine, birdsong, a whisper of approaching summer and the fjord lapping on the shore. thanks to my friend anders mjåset who generously shared his house and kayak.
camera: canon eos 3
lens: canon l-series 1:4 24-105mm
film: fujichrome provia 400x
scanner: nikon coolscan 4000ed
exploring northern italy with mattia in the spring of 2013. brescia’s opulent teatro grande and duomo, mattia’s family at home in novagli, macabre relics in castiglione, the silent streets of mantova, roman survivals and shakespearean fetishes in verona, researching urban history in the library at montichiari.
camera: canon eos 3
lens: canon l-series 1:4 24-105mm
film: fujichrome provia 400x
scanner: nikon coolscan 4000ed
six days in geneva and val d’isere with clarence and leigh anne. visiting the geneva motor show, protests on the streets, ever-shifting light and colour on the snowy peaks.
my very first visit to oslo, accompanied by johan brand, to give a pecha kucha talk on “the social workspace”. the ice-cloaked fjord, a wedding in the forest, intricately-carved mediaeval buildings, the exquisite new opera house.
tea with the inestimable kuba wygnanski, exploring stalin’s preposterous “palace of culture”, sights and sounds in mid-winter warsaw.
haggerston road, london
in may 2011 the thirty residents of the first trampery space on dereham place packed everything into boxes and shifted to a brand new purpose-designed site on bevenden street, little more than half a mile away. it was a worthy trampery mixture of smooth organisation and chaos.
haggerston road, london
the second instalment, taken in london between january and may 2011.
haggerston road, london
in a frenzy of scanning, cropping and cataloguing i’m finally catching up with my humungous backlog of films. the first instalment is from autumn and winter 2010 in london.
twenty-five pictures from a trip to palermo, salina and stromboli in september 2012 with mattia. i was captivated by the hat-making shop in palermo with all its patterns and tools. it had been running in the family since the 1930s but none of the children was interested in taking it on so the two old men were resigned to being the final generation. i arrived on stromboli to find a fire raging above the timpone. don luciano, the island’s priest, kindly allowed me to record a series of improvisations on the ancient organ in the church at san vincenzo. the maintainer had left a note dated august 1917, which was apparently the last time the instrument was serviced.
// charles armstrong // 