Comments on: In The Winter Garden

By: Celeste Larkin -Dion

Celeste Larkin -Dion — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 21:13:29 +0000

I love this place. Memories of being there long ago with my little daughter…

By: Carole SF

Carole SF — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 22:29:29 +0000

Absolutely delightful

By: Christine Swan

Christine Swan — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 21:14:34 +0000

I’ve tended to only visit Regents Park in the summer months, when it is usually heaving with people, so these photos look otherworldly in comparison.
I was recounting one lockdown memory with my son this evening. March 2020 was, as I recall, unseasonably fine. My enduring memory was the sheer luxury of sitting in the garden, in the setting sun, drinking an orange G + T – on a school night!

By: MJ Wallis

MJ Wallis — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 20:11:27 +0000

Very beautiful atmospheric, winter melancholy photographs.
GA, your sensibility and spirit are so often truly restoring.

By: Lynne Perrella

Lynne Perrella — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 17:34:30 +0000

GA, your way with words is a “given”; and WORDS are your keys to the kingdom. It seems only natural to me that you would want to “add” to these evocative photos with the addition of your unique words and sentiments. Yet, I love how the photos themselves have become the story tellers. Each one is full of captivating details that engage us, intrigue us, and prompt our own wonderings.
I love the composition of these images — the deep dark areas pull me into a reverie, and the sparks of light are thrilling.

Brilliant, as ever, GA. Many thanks

By: Bailey Jones

Bailey Jones — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 12:10:23 +0000

Being taken in black and white and in twilight, these photos remind me of the magic lantern slides you present from the Institute archives. They do seem like a faraway dream.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 11:52:12 +0000

Thank you for these Atget inspired shots. The vintage print effect is excellent.

By: Gilbert O’Brien

Gilbert O’Brien — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 10:11:41 +0000

Really splendid, evocative photos here that open a rusty hinged door into my own memories of what we used to call the Secret Garden in the middle of Regent’s Park. I first discovered it in the late 60s and often went there when I was hurting, or when I was happy. Most of the time it was empty, only occasionally were there any other people and they, like myself, were usually solitary. I think there was a mention of it in one of dailies some 20 years ago, and for a brief time there were more trippers coming and going. These private places are, more and more, disappearing in London, or being privatised, and I’m grateful for these beautiful photos pitching up in my inbox on this cold, gray morning.

By: Eve

Eve — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 09:36:00 +0000

The Winter Garden in a sombre & eerily respectful homage pays noble tribute “To all protectors of the defenceless” ..

By: Milo

Milo — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 09:35:00 +0000

What if I were to tell you that the reason you were keeping those photos to yourself was because the Winter garden does not exist and has never existed so on that winters day you were in fact taking photos of a memory that – Oh, hang on, I’ve just looked at a map. There it is. carry on.