London 2010

Not in your day, not in my day. by Birdseed? Along the Regent's Canal, near Mare Street. See where this picture was taken.

Along the Regent's Canal, near Mare Street. See where this picture was taken.

Along the Regent's Canal, somewhere east of Mare Street. See where this picture was taken.

Along the Regent's Canal, somewhere east of Mare Street. See where this picture was taken.

Along the Regent's Canal, somewhere east of Mare Street. See where this picture was taken.

Along the Regent's Canal, somewhere east of Mare Street. See where this picture was taken.

Along the Regent's Canal, somewhere east of Mare Street. See where this picture was taken.

Along the Regent's Canal, somewhere near Mile End Park. It looks like a tropical isle in the city. See where this picture was taken.

On top of a canal boat, along the Regent's Canal, somewhere near Victoria Park. See where this picture was taken.

Along the Regent's Canal, somewhere near Victoria Park. See where this picture was taken.

East Smithfield. Heron Tower on the left, the Gherkin in the middle, and Tower 24 (Nat West Tower) on the right. The old building in the foreground is Rotherwick House. The newer, glass building is Thomas More Square. See where this picture was taken.

Banksy stencil, in The Highway. It had only been there a couple of days when I took this photo. See where this picture was taken.

Originally posted to Guess Where London group. See where this picture was taken.

Mosaic at the Calthorpe Project, Gray's Inn Road. See where this picture was taken.

I was surprised to see a cactus (and such a large one) in central London. St Andrew's Gardens, Gray's Inn Road. See where this picture was taken.

Founder of the Foundling Hospital, the first home in London for abandoned children. See where this picture was taken.

Installation in the stairwell, made in conjunction with the exhibition Threads of Feeling at the Foundling Museum. All the ribbons came from V V Rouleaux, the ribbon shop in Marylebone. About the exhibition: "Threads of Feeling will showcase fabrics never shown before to illustrate the moment of parting as mothers left their babies at the original Foundling Hospital, which continues today as the children’s charity Coram. "In the cases of more than 4,000 babies left between 1741 and 1760, a small object or token, usually a piece of fabric, was kept as an identifying record. The fabric was either provided by the mother or cut from the child’s clothing by the hospital's nurses. Attached to registration forms and bound up into ledgers, these pieces of fabric form the largest collection of everyday textiles surviving in Britain from the 18th Century." See where this picture was taken.

This was a really interesting exhibition. I hadn't thought of street photography as being something dating back to the 19th century. He also did portrait photography, but I thought the images of the streets were much more compelling. He also did a lot of manipulation of the images, e.g. using several different negatives to form one image -- sort of like PhotoShop layers, 100 years before PS. www.npg.org.uk/whatson/exhibitions/2010/camille-silvy1/ex... See where this picture was taken.