iWitness

© Andrew Or

If you are visiting London this Summer, you can see a unique open air exhibition of work by Tom Stoddart close to Tower Bridge, opposite the Tower of London and next to the new City Hall, where a square of large columns supports his pictures in the show iWitness, commemorating 40 years of work by the Disasters Emergency Committee.

The pictures are arranged in groups: famine, siege, exodus, cleansing, floods, earthquake, loss, conflict and scourge, and include work from Sarajevo, Africa, New York after 9/11, Kosovo and elsewhere. These are powerful and emotional images, especially those of ordinary people caught in the crossfire in Sarajevo and the African aids victims. This is great photojournalism.

Rainbow over Canary Wharf

© Andrew Or

I took this photo this afternoon from the 25th floor of the office building that I work in. The view is towards Canary Wharf where you can see the rainbow. Today, it rained heavily in London but the sun kept coming back.