Wish You Weren’t Here

Can you really ever get away from it all? Not if you’re going to any of the beaches featured in Josef Hoflehner’s ‘Jet Airliner’ series. Planes swoop alarmingly close to sun seeking holidaymakers, some of whom find the need to duck. It’s one of the best arguments I know for holidaying in the mountains.   …

Home is in the Heart

Lee Jeffries earned his trade as a sports photographer before a conversation with a homeless woman led to him taking a remarkable series of photographs Not since Don McCullin have I seen images of the homeless that give them such a dignity. It raises them above the humiliating categorization of people to be pitied. Jeffries …

Mad Man

‘Vertigo’ was recently voted the best film of all time by the critics of  ‘Sight and Sound’.  So when I saw it was playing at my local repertory theater, I toddled along to take a look. At the time of its release it met with a mixed reception, being described by one critic as ‘far …

Fifth avenue. 5am

Sam Wasson’s fascinating little bio of the making of Breakfast at Tiffany’s ‘Fifth Avenue 5am’ not only made me want to review the film it also made me want to re read the book. On doing both I began to realize how different they were from one another and how right Wasson is in declaring …

The Ethereal Landscape

Self-taught photographer Alexandre Deschaumes called one series of image ‘Ethereal Atmospheres’ which comes close to capturing the feeling of his hyper-realistic, moody landscapes. Deschaumes spends time hiking out into the wildernesses of Iceland, Patagonia and the Alps looking for locations and listening to what he describes as his ‘inner feeling’ about a place. He advises …