Following on from my last post – an alternative title for this one, could have been – “Same film stock, different developer”! This, the second roll from my day trip to London, was developed in fresh ID11, rather than use developer obviously on it’s way out. With Ilford Delta 400, it’s not a developer that is recommended for 1+3, but times are given for 1+1 so that’s what I did. Predictably the results are much better!
For many years I went to London frequently, and knew the skyline well. These days it looks, and sometimes feels alien to me. It’s not that I don’t like the architecture, some of it I do very much. It’s more that the skyline is becoming unrecognisable to me and reminds me more of Bladerunner than London! Does the new extension to Tate Modern (above) not spark a thought of the Tyrell Pyramid at the start of that film?
Once inside, the “Turbine Hall” still looks the same. Perhaps I should explain for those who don’t know, Tate Modern, a modern art gallery on the south bank of the Thames in London, was once a power station. Derelict for a while, then converted to a gallery and opened to the public in May 2000. The Turbine Hall below, where the turbines once stood, now house occasional large installations, I especially remember a 150 meter long red trumpet by Anish Kapoor. I also shot an entire roll of Kodachrome on Olafur Eliasson’s “Weather Project” – and the people reacting to it!
The new extension is stark architecture to say the least – that said, I love some of the angles and spaces it creates.
To be honest a fair bit of the art, leaves me cold. Some chimes with me some not. Having been scanning my Egypt negs recently, the piece below reminded me of one of the pylon entrances to the temples, what the “hands and the people” (my title!) caught my eye!
Chatter: Canon EOS 30/40mm STM with Ilford Delta 400, processed in ID11 1+1 for 14mins at 21°c.
S.H.O.U.T. 
I haven’t been to London since 1982!!! I currently live in NJ near New York City and I have similar feelings about NYC. I lived in Brooklyn from 83-94 and the town looks way different that it does in my mind!!!
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Hello, I guess if one is in a place all the time, it’s a slow change that is just accepted. When you don’t see a place for a while, all of the changes are new and it’s more obvious! I know I have a few negs from the 80’s and 90’s of the skyline, it would be interesting to do a “then and now”! Cheers and best wishes Andy
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I visited the Tate Modern last year and spent most of my time taking photographs of the place and very little looking at the art. I did a similar thing when I visited the Museum of Liverpool a few years ago where almost the entire visit was spent photographing its impressive spiral staircase from multiple angles!
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Yes, exactly the same here. I did look around the Liverpool museum, but for me, that staircase was by far the best bit!! I know Tate Modern fairly well, having been lucky enough to visit several times, these days it’s often a “quick dive in” on my way to somewhere else! Cheers and best wishes -Andy
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