Walking through west London today I came across Belleville Boutique on westbourne grove... a shrine to all things francais, from food, antiques, art installations and even pictures hanging on the wall. These two pics below are from a series by Christina Mary Ann Gestra (who I think may buck the trend and be of angleterrean descent!) BUT she takes pictures in Paris and right now they are hanging up there as part of her Unconventional Photography exhibition.
by super-imposing layers of images and playing with varying levels of transparencies she aims to 'recreate the frenetic complexity and confusion of urban landscapes with its austere non-communicative silent population'
Really like the multilayered aesthetic... makes me want to dig out my Holga. Would've been great to get some recent double/triple exposure London shots post chaos of this week... but I think walking east London streets with a big gold-coloured camera and matching chain the day after ("it's not reeeeeeal!) ... well I suspect it would not have been mine for long!! Perhaps there is still some left over carnage to document...
ps-there was also a really cool Duralex glass exhibition in Belleville Boutique where different artists had been asked to create something from these french classiques! J'adore...
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