Photos from the first day of the Bridges Festival, Newcastle Gateshead (Saturday 4 August 2012). Now in its second year, the festival unleashes two days of entertainment along the banks of the River Tyne, with art, street theatre, dance and other performances, surrounded by buildings such as the Sage, Baltic, and the Millenium and Tyne …
More images from the Ala Daglar mountains in eastern Turkey Travelling with pack horses in the Kara Yalak Vadesi Camp below Direktas Evening light in the Yedi Goller (‘Seven Lakes’) basin These images were taken just after I started working on a new trekking guidebook to eastern Turkey – a project which was subsequently put …
‘Sacrilege’, a life-sized inflatable replica of Stonehenge for people to bounce on, by Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller, on its tour of 25 locations across the UK. Hampstead Heath, London, UK (1 August 2012) Photos © Rudolf Abraham. No unauthorized use.
Slovak band Silvayovci, from the city of Košice (European Capital of Culture 2013), performing at the Sports Cafe in Haymarket, London, this afternoon. Silvayovci are a traditional band with a twist, using trad instruments to play both traditional Slovak music and reworked interpretations of modern Western pop hits – they were covering Billy Jean in …
Some shots from around Stratford on the first day of the London Olympics, 28 July 2012 Woman standing in front of an image of the Olympic site Fashion poster, Leyton Road Announcements at the entrance to the Olympic Park Members of the armed forces, drafted in to cover some of the shortfall in security staff …