Tracking the Photographers’ Gallery in London turned out to be tricky. Al had his phone out and announced, “It’s supposed to be right here.”

‘Right here’ was a narrow gap between two buildings that we had initially walked past. Going through the gap we came out into a largest back alley filled with giant photographic prints hanging in the air and on one wall. In through an almost hidden door and we were there.  The Gallery had a retrospective of the work of Dennis Morris who had come from Jamaica as a small boy and fallen in love with photography. By the time he was 16 the Reggae music scene, in the persona of Bob Marley, offered him a job on tour with the band. He quit school and the rest is history.

He was very much a photographer of British music greats, taking photos of them that the subjects actually liked.His photos of the Punk Music scene often made the covers of albums and music scene magazines.
There was a wall of album covers, some of which I have in my collection: Patti Smith, Bob Marley, Toots, Peter Tosh, Marianne Faithful… The other featured photographer was Felicity Hammond, whose works play with the idea of Machines, Artificial Intelligence, Lithium Fields, Geological Extraction, and ‘AI Hallucinations’. Photos as cut-out shapes arranged in a grid.
Another grid.I was entranced by her work. Here are a couple of links to her work if you want to explore more:

• https://phmuseum.com/exhibitions/v3-model-collapse-by-felicity-hammond-at-the-photographers-gallery
• https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/felicity-hammond-v3-model-collapse

The museum had other moments as well such as the silkscreened windows using the Sex Pistols saying “Never Mind the Bollocks”.A gridded mirror in which to view our slightly fractured selfies. And the sign on the washroom door…More of Dan’s CFFC: Cultural Venues.