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 and print shop. Makes you wish someone was doing the same thing for the familiar faces in your road? Find out more here…

Shop by Abel Sloane

Here’s a tumblr shop to bookmark. Abel Sloane who is, incidentally based close to Penge (the place is full of surprises), is a furniture maker / restorer who sells a bunch of stuff I’d love to buy. He has a particular knack for photographing chairs… I want a new office chair. Now. A recent English and […]

Twins II

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 […]

Dungeness by night

I have been to Dungeness before, on an early morning eBay errand to collect a 50s Danish desk. I sat in the cafe at the end of the shingle spit feeling melancholy. It’s that sort of place. But this glorious weekend just gone, I was passing Dungeness again at twilight. Being in this already extraordinary […]

Pae White at the South London Gallery

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 […]