London trip

See here my stunning image of the light show at the Hayward Gallery (click to enlarge, please)

Yep, they allow no photography at all. And how ironic is that – a show about light, colour, and image but no record of it.

The organisers surely missed a trick here. If the hundreds of digicams, and amateur photographers (like me) were allowed to try to grab a few images, news about their exhibition would go viral. And isn’t that what an artist would want.

Statements like ‘oh they’re all copyright’ just won’t wash any longer in the digital age. Nobody, absolutely nobody, is going to try to copy their exhibits in their front room. If the ‘artists’ want to be better known, if they want their names out there and they want their work to be seen, if they want the news about their efforts to be broadcast (and if they want to earn more money) then let the rest of us do the advertising for them!

This is the last great taboo of the art gallery and it’s high time that someone had a little more courage than the Hayward.

Outside the gallery all sorts of interesting things were going on like a film crew taking 3d images of people dancing with bubbles.