This photograph was taken in Shoreditch on our second day in London.
Before leaving Australia, I had a long list of cultural clichés to photograph in each country we were planning to visit. One of my colleagues had set me a challenge "photograph a bowler hat" and this was too good an opportunity to miss.
The girl had stopped to fiddle with her smart phone, completely unaware of us.
I didn't even notice the graffiti on the wall above her head until much later (I was more interested in her bowler at the time) but I think it gives the image an almost comic like quality - as though the words in her text are appearing above her head like a dialogue box.
Back home and sorting through photos from the trip, I rediscovered it and immediately liked it. In July I heard about the London Look Photography Challenge and entered three shots which I think fit the brief perfectly. The judges liked this one and have selected it for an exhibition at the Horniman Museum in London.
"Love" indeed.
Before leaving Australia, I had a long list of cultural clichés to photograph in each country we were planning to visit. One of my colleagues had set me a challenge "photograph a bowler hat" and this was too good an opportunity to miss.
The girl had stopped to fiddle with her smart phone, completely unaware of us.
I didn't even notice the graffiti on the wall above her head until much later (I was more interested in her bowler at the time) but I think it gives the image an almost comic like quality - as though the words in her text are appearing above her head like a dialogue box.
Back home and sorting through photos from the trip, I rediscovered it and immediately liked it. In July I heard about the London Look Photography Challenge and entered three shots which I think fit the brief perfectly. The judges liked this one and have selected it for an exhibition at the Horniman Museum in London.
"Love" indeed.
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| The Horniman Museum 'London Look Photography Challenge' Exhibition |
