This friday I’m sharing a photo that expresses what I need right now: peace, quiet and serenity. I want to be alone in a silent place with no plans and no work and nothing to do but relax and listen to the peaceful sounds of silence. And one of my favourite peaceful sounds is the quiet lapping of the sea on an abandoned beach. And the easiest way to find an abandoned beach, is to go in the winter.
Last week as part of the London Design Festival, I visited designjunction. Just like last year it was in The Sorting House in New Oxford Street. The layout was a bit different this time, the auditorium was in a more hidden area which made it harder to find, but also meant there was less ambient noise during the talks.
London is so rich with photographic opportunities that some times it can get overwhelming. You can either end up taking an endless series of postcard style photos or you can try and look to find new views and new ways to frame over exposed icons and places.
It’s yet again time for the London Design Festival! This year I went to 100% Design on Wednesday, designjunction on Thursday, and plan on visiting Open House over the weekend.
I always enjoy visiting Thessaloniki, it’s a city I have lived some of the most formative and best years if my life in. Most greek cities are very grey and ugly in a modernist way, but Thessaloniki has more splashes of colour and character than most.
Paris is a most photogenic city, and an overly photographed city. One interesting thing about the French and how they lay out their cities, palaces and parks is their obsession with grids and geometry. If you look at Paris from the sky you will see that many of the main buildings and monuments of the city are laid out in one giant monumental axis.
I love the juxtapositions you can come across in cities, and I also love the random and chance.
I find the backstreets and alleyways of a city just as interesting as the main roads and public squares. I always enjoy exploring the back spaces and what hides behind the shiny shop fronts. In a way you are seeing what is meant to be hidden. I am also one of those people who finds beauty in ugliness.
I really love public art. Even though it can be very hit and miss – in Greece in particular we have an abundance of obscenely ugly modern public art – I prefer an ugly sculpture over no sculpture at all any time.
What I love about the city, is that as you wonder round it and explore it, you never know what you will come across. London in particular is a very fertile city that way. Central London is in a way considered the “front window” or “display” of the UK, and a lot of care has been put into its public space and buildings.
pandora pavlides 