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Photographer Skye Parrott narrates the imagery that fills her latest book, Perfect Days
Katherine, Amarillo, TX, 2006
"Katherine
has been my best friend since we were fourteen. She and I drove
cross-country together for the second time when she moved to San
Francisco. We did a piece about the trip for Lula, her
writing, and me taking pictures. This was taken at the Cadillac Ranch
in Amarillo. Some nutty man bought a piece of land and buried a bunch
of old Cadillacs nose-down in the dirt in the middle of the plains. We
had been talking for days as we drove about stopping to take pictures,
but when we got there it was so windy and so cold that neither of us
wanted to get out of the car. I said to her, you don’t have to do
this. We can just skip it. But she was really brave and took off her
coat and climbed up on top of one of the Cadillacs. The wind was so
loud you had to yell over it, and her hair looks so crazy because it
was being whipped all around. I love how calm her face looks, despite
all that."
Second Avenue, NYC, 2006
"I
love New York more than anywhere else. Being away from it allowed me a
certain distance, and when I would visit, I could see it through a
stranger's eyes. It would look all dark and shiny, like Gotham from a
comic book. This is taken after I moved back but I think it still has
that quality."
Hans, Jane Street, NYC, 1996
"I took this when I was seventeen. It was one of the first rolls of film I ever shot, and it's one of my favorite pictures. Hans was my boyfriend then, and again for most of my twenties, and this was taken on the roof of his parents' house. I think he looks so beautiful and vulnerable and timeless here—everything that’s good about being a teenager."
Essaouira, 2004
"This was taken on a shoot in Morocco when I was assisting. We were eating at the port, at a place that was just a plastic table, some chairs, and a grill, set up along the rampart, overlooking the water. They served fish, only fish, grilled with salt, and as we ate we watched the fishing boats come in, with trails of birds following them."
Alec, Favignana, 2007
"Favignana is a tiny island off the western coast of Sicily. We took the ferry there for the day. At the port, we hired a man with a green boat to take us around. He only had a few teeth. The sea floor around the island has veins of white rock, and when the light bounces off it if makes the water look fluorescent blue. He took us into grottoes, and stopped the boat in the middle of the sea so we could jump in to swim. It was so deep and so cold I couldn’t stay in for very long. The whole time he was explaining everything to us in Italian, which none of us understood. I took this in one of the grottoes, right after we’d climbed back into the boat."
Hank, Tuscany, 2005
"I rented a house in Tuscany that summer with a bunch of friends. It had the most amazing pool, built out over the edge on a cliff. You could sit on the edge and hang you legs down to nothing, which was kind of scary. This is my brother swimming. Later, I saw a picture by André Kertész that was taken in 1917 that looks almost exactly the same, except, of course, in black and white. I guess I referenced it without knowing it.
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Category: Travel and Places
 The V&A museum in London has a display of a new interactive audio-visual installation in the John Madejski Garden. Volume is made of a series of vertical light columns and will respond to visitors' movements, triggering a display of light and sound. The collaboration is between lighting designers United Visual Artists (UVA) and Robert Del Naja (aka 3D) of Massive Attack and his long-term co-writer Neil Davidge (as part of their music production company, one point six). The installation is part of the Playstation Season, a series of contemporary, interactive events at the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Arts, The English National Opera, Sadler's Wells, The British Film Institute and the V&A. |
London-based graphic designer and illustrator
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Organic, sustainable and beautiful! TI really loves Edouard Francois' structures in Sengeal
robert russell - 2005 crying girl oil/canvas   Robert russel - ballerina  |
 Sigmar Polke's work can regularly be seen at exhibitions in Germany and abroad. In 1997 the largest retrospective of his works up to date took place at the Federal German Art and Exhibition Hall in Bonn and at the 'Galerie der Gegenwart', Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin.
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