Anything and everything a chap can unload

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I took these couple of pictures on a visit to Porto­bello Market a couple of weeks ago. The film was expired slide film anyway, and it went through the airport xray machine twice on my way to and back from Bulgaria, and it ended up with a large red section. Not an attract­ive red tinge, a muddy red effect that blew out high­lights and blurred details. I took more pictures at the market, but they ended up unus­able. That’s expired film for you. I prefer to go to Porto­bello Market on Fridays (and sunny Fridays at that). It gets too crowded on Saturdays, and I don’t like big crowds. There’s a bus that goes direct from my house to there, and if I get off early at West­bourne Grove, there’s a great place that does slices of corn­bread pizza for lunch. On this occa­sion I ended up with a green pop art scarf, a seven­ties blouse and a Wild Noth­ing single from Rough Trade for a grand total of about a tenner.

letterpress


I love letter­press. This guy sells it on his stall for use, not just as a decor­a­tion, as you see a lot of people selling it. There’s a letter­press work­shop at my univer­sity, and I did the train­ing to use the facil­it­ies, but my project doesn’t really involve type much, and I haven’t had a chance to use it this year because I don’t live in Brighton and don’t get the chance on the days when I’m in Uni. I’d love to have a small press of my own, but have nowhere to put it, and the ink is really messy. Same with screen­print­ing. In Canter­bury there’s a small army surplus shop near the cathed­ral, run by an old man who will set and print things while you wait, as long as the thing you want prin­ted is under 3 lines. I’m not sure what people actu­ally use that service for, but he must get some call for it.

pumpkin

The shot was totally red and low contrast with lost details, in the end the only way I could rescue it was to turn it into b&w, and it doesn’t look that great. I just liked the way the woman running the veget­able stall was sat next to the pump­kin, in a fancy lacy dress, in a Cinder­ella kind of way.

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