Author Archive for timo



desk

MRAO, June 2005

happiest thought

“I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of sudden a thought occurred to me: ‘If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight.’ I was startled. This simple thought made a deep impression on me. It impelled me toward a theory of gravitation.” Albert Einstein, […]

swipe

MRAO, June 2005

murmuration

I was walking with some friends in Wales, near St Davids, late in the afternoon on New Year’s Day in 1994. We were on top of a hill, miles from the nearest village or isolated farmhouse and one had a definite sense of being on the edge of things, a feeling of existing outside society. […]

boxing

stick

Up to the Royal Canal again, trying to get a shot of the water. As the wind was getting up and it was beginning to rain, a man was walking along the towpath on the other side. He shouted across, asking me how I was doing and if I’d got some good pictures. Walking off, […]

language

goal

light

bare

home

[photo | Vincent O’Riley]

dogs

discarded

snail

water tower

track

Lyon, April 2000

house

(Photograph bought in a New York flea market, May 1994.)

diving

newspaper

puzzles

blasting

bars

(Photograph bought in a New York flea market, May 1994.)

bonsai

[photo | Jenny Mercer & Tim O’Riley]

side street

post office

apartments

annunziata di palermo

Oblique view of Antonello da Messina’s Our Lady of the Annunciation (1474-7?) in the Palazzo Abatellis, Galleria Regionale della Sicilia, Palermo. The gallery was designed by Carlo Scarpa and opened in 1954.

wing

market stall

square

studio

bexhill

beetle

coins

(Coins flattened on the railway line running through Marfa, Texas 2006.)

stamps

(Stamps issued by the Irish Post Office in 1943 on the centenary of William Rowan Hamilton’s discovery of quaternions. Hamilton lived and worked at Dunsink Observatory, near Dublin, from 1827 until his death in 1865.)

TdF

Goudhurst, July 2007

shop

canoe

(Photograph bought in a New York flea market, May 1994.)

wet and dry

(Richard Hamilton, Epiphany, 1963-89; replica badge given away free to visitors at the Anthony d’Offay exhibition, Summer 1991.)

map and badge

(Lapel badge and schematic map of the road from Socorro, New Mexico to the Very Large Array.)

calendar

library

beach

berries

engraved sign

snow

goats

space

baseball

natural history

crazy

paths

cloud

antimatter experiment

cones

balloon

volkswagen

clementine

zoo

table

art book

travel

pimlico

cloud man

photo | JKM

millbank

boxes

grafitti

photo | JKM

redhook

buffet

holloway road

kolsch

Cologne, March 2006

slade

London, November 2005

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