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Selected Work — 27 photographs

Art & Monuments

Frescoes, murals, bronzes and carved wood — other people's masterpieces, seen sideways.

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Painted carousel horse with Salamanca's old university buildings behind — Salamanca, Spain Galloping in place

Detail of a gold-ground Madonna and Child panel painting, Florence — Florence, Italy What the centuries couldn't dull

Detail of a ceiling fresco depicting the Holy Family among angels — Florence, Italy Still airborne after 500 years

Large street mural of San Gennaro towering over a narrow Naples street hung with laundry — Naples, Italy San Gennaro keeping watch over Forcella

Plant-filled, graffiti-covered courtyard of a Budapest ruin bar with people at tables — Budapest, Hungary Afternoon in a ruin bar

Liberty Statue on Gellert Hill against a blue sky crossed by a jet contrail, Budapest — Budapest, Hungary A jet rules a line past Liberty

Black and white view of Francois Rude's La Marseillaise relief on the Arc de Triomphe, Paris — Paris, France Two centuries mid-shout

Gilded bronze sculptures on the Pont Alexandre III against a grey sky, Paris — Paris, France Gilded against the grey

Pigeons perched on a winged lamp fixture against a clear blue sky with one landing, Krakow — Kraków, Poland A parliament of pigeons

Carved wooden relief of a family with bowed heads saying grace around a table with fish, Cebu, Philippines — Cebu, Philippines Grace before the catch

Medieval carved wooden relief of the Lamentation of Christ displayed on a museum wall, Warsaw — Warsaw, Poland Lamentation in wood

Balancing acrobat sculpture suspended among red-lit steel struts of the Bernatek footbridge at night, Kraków — Kraków, Poland The balancing act

Two marble statues on carved brackets against the wall of Milan Cathedral, one inverted, with hard shadows — Milan, Italy The Duomo's cast

Looking straight up at the underside of the giant Maman spider sculpture, its legs radiating against an overcast sky, Bilbao — Bilbao, Spain Maman, from below

Fra Angelico's Crucifixion with Saints fresco under a vaulted ceiling, San Marco, Florence — Florence, Italy The chapter house

Fra Angelico's Annunciation fresco with the angel Gabriel and Mary under painted arches, San Marco, Florence — Florence, Italy At the top of the stairs

Detail of Fra Angelico's Last Judgment showing angels and the blessed dancing in a garden, San Marco, Florence — Florence, Italy The dance of the saved

Detail of Fra Angelico's Last Judgment showing the tiered punishments of hell, San Marco, Florence — Florence, Italy The other verdict

London, England Sphinx and the Eye

A carved wooden sculpture of an old bearded face emerging from driftwood in a Venetian shop window — Venice, Italy The driftwood elder

The British Museum Great Court's glass lattice roof casting diagonal shadows on the curved Reading Room wall — London, England The lattice prints itself

A man and a woman pulling suitcases past a wall frieze of black line-art walking figures, London — London, England Keeping pace

A man photographing giant carved marble theatre masks on pillars among umbrella pines at Ostia Antica — Ostia Antica, Italy The audience of masks

A carved stone relief of a serene female figure in a niche on a Sri Lankan temple wall, warm afternoon light — Kelaniya, Sri Lanka Keeping her smile

A golden reclining Buddha statue beneath a painted checkered cave ceiling at Dambulla, Sri Lanka — Dambulla, Sri Lanka Under a painted sky

Silhouette from below of Nandor Glid's bronze memorial of emaciated figures entangled in barbed wire against a blue sky, Dachau — Dachau, Germany International Monument

White modernist sculptural installation with carved symbols and mathematical notation, overlooking a hilltop town with castle, clear blue sky — Almonaster, Spain The symbol-keepers

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