A quick alert to all south east Londoners – this Saturday sees a ‘makers market’ in Forest Hill, with artisan food stalls, craft and art for sale. It’s part of the excellent SEE3 scheme which is bringing pop-up shops to empty spaces in Forest Hill and Sydenham. There’ll be much more to tell you about […]
A cute community website today. I Love Chatsworth Road was set up by photographer Jorn Tomter in 2007 to document the residents, shop owners and market traders of Chatsworth Road, Hackney. It’s similar to Tom Leighton’s portraits of Camberwell shop owners which we covered last year, but this project has expanded to include a magazine […]
Not for the first time on this blog, we have to point out that we’re not on about the film with Arne and Danny in it. But here’s another incredible documentation of real-life (adult) twins who always dress identically. Monette and Mady were spotted in Paris by photographer Maja Daniels, who observed them unnoticed for […]
I did my favourite thing this bank holiday weekend – stayed in London while everyone else left. We went to the South London Gallery for a mooch and some lunch. I liked the building itself, with its modern extension and cute garden – if you visit, make sure you go upstairs so you can ogle next […]
I accidentally went to a fashion press show at Anthropologie on Wednesday, thinking they were showing their new homewares. The nice lady let no indication pass across her face that I clearly didn’t look like a fashion journalist. Instead she kindly told me about the only bit of homeware on show, these chairs. They’re the […]