CARITA SILANDER
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Roses

16/11/2020

 
These photographs are part of my ever-growing collection of what I call ‘Found photographs’. They are of roses in the Greenwich Rose Garden, taken on a late summer evening in 2017 or 2016. I stumbled across them and was compelled to take the photographs. They are decadent snapshots; I was drawn to them, those thorny symbols of love, on that night because they were so beautiful. It was like they had held onto the light a bit longer while everything else was getting darker. The first one especially reminded me of the rose in the west wing in the story of the Beauty and the Beast. ​
© Carita Silander

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  • LONDON ARCHIVE
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    • South of the Thames
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    • Square Mile and around
    • Lockdown Trails
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    • The last photograph
    • The first photograph
    • For the love of Light
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    • a love song
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