Coastal Recollections: David Pisani’s photos inaugurate gallery
The Sea, more a mood and a moment than a reality through the lens of David Pisani David Pisani is one of Malta’s foremost photographers and has gained a formidable reputation well beyond Malta’s...
View ArticleMalta through the lens: the Richard Ellis photographic archive
Sliema's most popular bathing spot, then as now: Exiles, back in c.1920s. (© The Richard Ellis Archive- Malta) Malta houses a massive archive of early photography that gives us an astonishing insight...
View ArticleMalta from Space: a perspective
We chanced upon this amazing and humbling photo taken from space (see below). Southern Italy, so recognisable, the tricorn of Sicily at its toe and then a little strip that’s Malta and beyond the coast...
View ArticleValletta in transit between past & present
Valletta in TRANSIT: down with the 20th century, up with 21st Century and long live the C16th? The Renzo Piano project to redevelop Valletta’s city gate area has proved somewhat controversial even now...
View ArticleNow you see it, now you don’t: Valletta’s City Gate
A praying mantis. The pair of diggers getting rid of the blot on the landscape – what I have always thought of as architecture reminiscent of Castro’s Cuba. Captured as ‘an exclusive’ for us by David...
View ArticlePhotography goes to town!
You’ve just under two weeks to catch the Valletta Photography Festival which runs in various permanent and temporary exhibition spaces around the city until 31 May. This first Valletta Photography...
View ArticlePhoto caption fun: God speed!
These two speed camera signs spotted in the centre of Zebbug are hilarious. Malta is the place for people wanting to capture quirky signage. Most of us hunt them down in Valletta where there are still...
View Article‘Traces of Traces’: making a mark on Malta’s contemporary photography
Traces of Traces – making new memories from the most mundane of scenes Photographs we remember, that make a profound imprint on our life’s journey, are often those documenting decisive events, a single...
View ArticleEaster in Malta, a photographic prelude
As a prelude to the Easter weekend and its considerable street festivities and events, we’re posting up some evocative photos taken a week ago at the official start to Easter: Our Lady of Sorrows day....
View ArticleMalta in 360: an ususual perspective on the Islands
It’s late 2009 and IT professional and photography fanatic Pierre Axiaq is tinkering with his latest project – a 360 degree panoramic photo. Confiding in his friend and fellow IT professional George...
View ArticleStrolling down St Paul’s Street, Valletta
St Paul’s Street is one of the most authentic of streets in Valletta’s tight grid. For most of the past half century, it’s been almost abandoned and in steady decline as traditional shops closed their...
View ArticlePhotograph Malta!
With incoming tourists numbering around the 1.4 million mark annually, you can imagine the volume of holiday snaps of Malta taken each year. Of course, many don’t make it from disc to drive. And...
View ArticleAutumn Colour in Malta
Malta has its four seasons too, although we tend to focus on summer with its deep blues and yellows ignoring the subtleties of other seasons. For a fleeting moment, we turned our lens inland to...
View Article‘Slow Film Movement': film photography & darkroom courses
Why Celluloid in our Digital World? Every revolution has its counter-current and it was inevitable that the digital-cyber-virtual revolution would ultimately rekindle the desire for hand crafted...
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