Iron Man in a puddle © Andrew Turner
November is traditionally the month when we celebrate the legacy of the great Henry Taunt.
We do so by showcasing some very fine photographs by some very fine photographers.
November is also, fittingly, the month of the biennial Photo Oxford Festival. A recent exhibition took as its theme a question: What’s Your Oxford?
These were some of the responses:
Red City © Adrian Krajewski
Rainy afternoon on Magdalen bridge © Robert Farrands
Stairway to knowledge © Dee Robinson
Fog on the canal © Isobel Reeve
Emerge © Wendy Aldiss
Winner winner pigeon dinner © Francois Louw
Let me be your guide © Howard Sherwood
Dons in a flap © Stuart Bibb
Covered Market butcher © Sandra Devaney
Bear bum © Philip Joyce
May Day 2024 © Andrew Kerr
Book Browser © Jean Pierre de Rosnay
Table for one at the Tik Tok Café © Francois Louw
Dreaming Spires © Duncan Taylor
United’s promotion parade, May 2024 © Thom Airs
Winter sun, High Street © Thom Airs
Thames Water mural, Isis Bridge © Ian Shaw
Wolf in transit © Welch Biedscheid
Beaumont Buildings © Etain O’Carrol
Fast food, Cornmarket © Angus Taverner
Art fatigue © Hilary Palmer
We take this opportunity to commemorate Paddy Summerfield, probably Oxford’s most influential photographer of the post-war era, who died last year.
An exhibition of his work is on display at the Weston Library:
Oxford’s premier hotelier, Jeremy Mogford, has been one of Paddy Summerfield’s most consistent admirers, and a great patron of his work:
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kOrky Paul, celebrated book illustrator, was moved to send in this photograph, taken on a trek down the Marston Ferry Road one wintery morning in January last year
Richard Luff had a somewhat sunnier experience walking across Port Meadow
