Salgado @ Natural History Museum

Genesis is the name given to the first book of the Bible. The book in which we are given a description of the creation of the world. A world which is free of technology and is purely natural. Sebastiao Salgado’s exhibition at the Natural History Museum is aptly titled. It is a celebration of the […]

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Vermeer @ National Gallery

Currently on display at the National Gallery are a handful of 17th century instruments alongside Dutch paintings. The Gallery is celebrating summer with a look into the role of music in society from group performances to intimate interactions between student and teacher. Although small, the exhibition gives a fair look at Dutch paintings of the […]

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80s Fashion @ V&A

Having been born in the 90’s, I took my mother with me as a guide to the 80’s themed fashion exhibition which is currently on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum. At the time it seemed like a good idea. When we got in however, she informed me that she was more of a […]

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Miles Aldridge @ Somerset House

I have a kind of love-hate relationship with Miles Aldridge’s work. Sometimes I love the bright images with dramatic posing and at other times I find his photographs garish and forced. On show at Somerset House is a display of admiration to female beauty. At times the images are so saturated they cease to look […]

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Blumenfeld @ Somerset House

In 1923 Erwin Blumenfeld opened a leather goods store in Amsterdam. It specialised in ladies handbags and the business went bankrupt in 1935. He had started off his working career as an apprentice dressmaker and would go on to become one of the highest paid and most sought after fashion photographers of the 20th century. […]

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