Deja vu?!

So, the title of this blog is 'deja vu'
I am still very proud of the work that I created for the exhibition and enjoying seeing it up around my parents place. I will also have some of it (what I haven't sold, given away) when I finally settle in a place to live. I also love the photos I took when I gatecrashed an event in Southbank.

Other people's events

Exhibition photos

Every time I open up my blog to see how it actually looks in real time, I am reminded of a phase in my life when I fell in love with a place in London. Actually, I lie, I still love the place. Where is this place? Well, I have photos throughout my blog and posts about it.... it's the Southbank skate park and Leake Road. I love the fact that things change every time that I am there, the graffiti can change on an hourly basis or yearly basis. Watching the artists at their work is amazing, there is skill in using those spray cans - layers of paint and textures, crisp outlines and sharp colours.

Being a tourist, I only get a glimpse of the life of the skate park once or twice a year. One of the niggles (for me), is that the life of the park goes through phases. This could be due to the bigger picture of the skate park or London. This doesn't sound like much, but wandering around you get a sense of how loved the place is at that moment in time. The last time I was there, people were busy trying to save the park and fingers crossed they have achieved this. I have been done during the year of the London Olympics and the golden jubilee, it was nice to see graffiti up representing us as a British nation.

Theses are photos taken earlier this year (yes, unfortunately with my Iphone)

Stealing other people's events

The last time I was in London, Great Britain had won a few gold medals at the Olympics, there was a destroyer parked up in the river Thames and some event was taking place at the Southbank. Southbank is one of the ever changing places in London, being a place for legal graffiti the walls are always developing with new art work going up and old work being amended. Every time I go there, there is always something new to see.

This time I stumbled upon an event that was talking place in the Southbank skate park. As this was during the time that I was struggling with my photography, I was nervous about taking photos, worried about standing out from the crowd. The skatepark was full of youngsters, BMX's and yellow cones. After some googling, I have discovered the event that I turned up at. It was the 'DUB BMX street series', so that would explain the professional photographers, lights and the stickers from sponsors being thrown into the crowd. Having had a look at the photographs that I found on goggle from where the 'professionals' had set up their gear, I am not sure what to think. http://issuu.com/richiemac/docs/dubbmx/20

Anyway, here are my photos from Southbank and Leeke road and one of someone else making use of the graffiti to strike a pose.

Uploaded photos

Have finally put my exhibition photos onto Facebook, we will now see what interest they get there. I am hoping to sell a few (it not all) prints.

In case somehow you managed to find yourself here, and missed the photos on my profile, here they are again.

The prints received very good verbal reviews during the exhibition. I am pleased with the results, someone asked me how many years work I had presented. It was nothing like a years work, two months work at most. So, I do wonder what I could achieve if I keep these photos going for a year. I most certainly would like to head back to South Bank in London, get to know some graffiti artists and even look at graffiti removal to add a slightly different aspect to it all.

Now, time to think about what to do next

(Also, let me know if you would like a copy of any of these prints)