black and white photography by rob gardiner.

NYCLondon is now beaming live to you from The Barbican, London’s sprawling modernist megacomplex of concrete. Sporadic posting will continue while I try to get telecommunications sorted out (and become acquainted with the Garchey).

The Barbican is either revered or despised, depending on who you talk to. There are many websites explaining the quirks of the Barbican, most notably Barbican Living.

The whole place looks ready for many photo jaunts. Had a walk around today, several photos follow.

An advantage of moving house is that you discover old half-exposed
rolls of film that you have not been bothered about developing. These
two shots (the only two shots) I took with a pinhole camera in Naritasan Shinshoji Temple, Japan last June.

[Plaubel Makina 67]

Primrose Hill, a small park adjacent to Regent’s Park in London. It’s windy there, and the view’s so nice.

If the above photograph looks familiar, it is because it was
taken at the same location as one of the greatest and most famous
photographic portraits ever taken, namely Bill Brandt’s shot of Francis
Bacon in 1963, reproduced below. (I’ve got an old 6x7 shot of this
location lying around somewhere, too. I’ll try to scavenge it).

Of course, these are with a 4x5 pinhole camera. A pinhole camera
is a box with a pinhole. There is no lens, viewfinder, meter, or
anything you’d normally find on a camera. A true point and shoot.