Oliver Holms — Notes

Jun 9, 2025 Pink flowers between two black metal gates.
Jun 6, 2025 Tall ornamental flowering plants in front of a large dilapidated tower block. It's the view as you walk from Margate station towards the sea front.
Jun 5, 2025 Two young men waiting at a seafood cart by Margate harbour. Both men are facing away from the camera. The man on the right is wearing black trousers and a black vest and has a large yellow banana soft toy sticking out of his right back pocket.
Jun 3, 2025 A man and a woman sleeping on a train with their heads in their arms on the table between them
Jun 3, 2025 Three men sleeping with their heads on the table of a train
May 31, 2025 This image shows a weathered three-story residential apartment building with white and beige concrete panels, brown brick accents, and significant peeling paint revealing orange-brown patches underneath. The building features various window configurations, glass-enclosed balconies with personal items like plants and hanging laundry, and a patch of grass in the foreground, with an overall appearance suggesting mid-to-late 20th century social housing in need of maintenance. There is a black towel with a pattern of repeating Marilyn Monroe heads on a black background hanging over one of the balconies.
May 26, 2025

Great interview with Juergen Teller covering a huge amount of ground: collaboration, democratising his subject selection with ‘Go-Sees’, shooting his latest work with an iPhone, his Auschwitz project, what divides his personal and professional work, the origin story of working with Marc Jacobs, and his approach to portraiture and how it has changed.

May 23, 2025 Child's hand seen in the gap between oversized white balloons. The child's jumper is white with black spots
May 23, 2025 Red and white flowers on a low white wall. The background is in shadow, and the flowers are illuminated by a shard of sunlight
May 21, 2025 Young girl in a park wearing in a yellow dress reaches out to touch the green netting on some wire fencing. She is in a patch of sun and everything around her is in shade. The light is breaking through tree branches creating streaks of light on the netting. The fence is held up by yellow plastic blocks on the other side of the fence from the girl
May 18, 2025 View out a window at dusk, looking over roof tops towards the treelined horizon. There is the reflection of a woman wearing a pink scarf floating in the left centre of frame.
May 17, 2025 black and white photo of two kids cycling from right to left of frame. The kid on the left is balancing with both feet on the top tube of his bike and is hands on the handlebars. They are in a park and there is a path leading between two stands of trees and shrubs behind them.
May 9, 2025

“Be careful what you wish for, not because you’ll get it but because you’ll be turned into the thing that can get it. It’s not a process where you just ask for something and it magically appears, it’s a process that breaks you down and rebuilds you into the right tool for the job.”
—Jed McKenna talking about Francis Ford Coppola

H/t Trung Phan on Not Investment Advice | E214

May 8, 2025 portrait of extremely muscular topless man with a beard and wearing a black doo-rag, posing next to a lamppost and fir hydrant. There is a road with an NYC yellow cab and a man crossing the street behind him on the left of frame. Chip, near Columbus Circle, Manhattan. April 2025
May 6, 2025

Poems and modern memes, both, are fundamentally group cognitive technologies. Exactly half of the enjoyment, half of the use of the thing, comes in sharing the experience once you’ve had it yourself.
—Joel Dueck, from Share poems like memes

May 1, 2025
Apr 30, 2025

[…] no matter what your age is, shoot your world! Capture what you see that other don’t or can’t.
—Blake Andrews

From his excellent interview with Sebastien Boncy

Apr 23, 2025

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
—Marcel Proust

Apr 10, 2025 Bright red Chinese lanterns with gold decorations strung across a budding tree in front of a brick apartment building. Multiple strings of these traditional lanterns create a festive display, likely for Lunar New Year celebrations. The lanterns stand out vividly against the blue sky and new green foliage of the tree, with some lanterns marked "LNER" visible in the arrangement. The multi-story residential building provides a warm-colored backdrop for this cultural decoration.
Apr 9, 2025

Street Portraits: Akinyemi, Savile Row — April 2025

air and light and time and space

Apr 8, 2025

‘- you know, I’ve either had a family, a job, something
has always been in the
way
but now
I’ve sold my house, I’ve found this
place, a large studio, you should see the space and
the light.
for the first time in my life I’m going to have a place and
the time to
create.’
no baby, if you’re going to create
you’re going to create whether you work
16 hours a day in a coal mine
or
you’re going to create in a small room with 3 children
while you’re on
welfare,
you’re going to create with part of your mind and your
body blown
away,
you’re going to create blind
crippled
demented,
you’re going to create with a cat crawling up your
back while
the whole city trembles in earthquakes, bombardment,
flood and fire.
baby, air and light and time and space
have nothing to do with it
and don’t create anything
except maybe a longer life to find
new excuses
for.

Charles Bukowski

Apr 7, 2025 The interior of a historic cathedral or church featuring an ornate altar under a grand archway. The ceiling is decorated with a Renaissance-style fresco depicting religious figures, angels, and heavenly scenes with golden/orange tones. The walls are made of dark marble or stone, and the altar area includes classical columns supporting a decorative canopy. A religious statue or relic appears to be displayed within the altar space, illuminated by candlelight in the otherwise dimly lit sanctuary. Church pews are visible in the foreground, facing the altar. The architecture combines Baroque and Renaissance elements with dramatic lighting highlighting the sacred space.

Girona, Spain — September 2022.

Apr 6, 2025 A symmetrical grand staircase with dual curved staircases meeting in the center. The stairs are made of white marble or stone with elaborate wrought iron railings featuring scrollwork patterns. Large windows flood the space with natural light, creating a bright, airy atmosphere in this elegant interior. Three large black dog sculptures displayed in an art gallery. The sculptures are life-sized, depicting dogs with pointed ears and alert postures, arranged in a triangular formation on a wooden floor with white gallery walls in the background. An elegant curved staircase with ornate black wrought iron railings inside a building. The staircase features white steps and leads to a bright hallway with arched ceilings and white walls. The design combines classical architectural elements with decorative metalwork.

Ron Mueck at Thaddaeus Ropac

Apr 5, 2025

style

style is the answer to everything — a fresh way to approach a dull or a
dangerous thing.
to do a dull thing with style
is preferable to doing a dangerous thing
without it.

Joan of Arc had style
John the Baptist
Christ
Socrates
Caesar,
Garcia Lorca.

style is the difference,
a way of doing,
a way of being done.

6 herons standing quietly in a pool of water
or you walking out of the bathroom naked
without seeing
me.

from: Love is a Dog From Hell by Charles Bukowski

Apr 3, 2025

Walk until your day becomes interesting
— Rolf Potts