Ben Bale Photography

I spent last week sitting by a crystal clear blue pool in boiling heat on holiday…which has made this week in London grey, cold and wet. Well, greyer, colder, wetter.

So to try and bring back some of that relaxed sunset feel – here are a couple of photos from Santorini. The first one is Thira and the second two are from the island of Thirassia which only got electricity about 25 years ago and has one tiny village on it.

Can I go back please!?

Did you know you can buy banksy stencils for you interior decorating now? I mean how fan removed from rebelion is interior design? “ooh look at me, aren’t I shortditch – I have banksy in my bedroom!”

We’ll here’s 5 bits of street art I’ve seen with my camera recently.

This one isn’t that rcent to be honest – I took this image years ago and used it for a song I wrote, recorded and never released to the world when I was about 16. It was called “Toy of TOnight” and sounded resoundingly awful and dull.

This is on the side of a Toys R Us in Southampton – I love how these kids are complaining on the said of a toy shop, yet were too short to continue their protest due to the stairs, damn that physical world manipulation!

This pretty much sums up our economy right down, doesn’t it?

Sting would have been proud.

Wow, just wow. Wouldn’t you rather this than yet another banksy rat?

To do something different this afternoon, here’s a set of photos from where I grew up. A shit hole known as ‘The Medway Towns’.It’s always strange to go back somewhere after so long. For me, memories are more related to songs than photos, so from 1996, Susan’s House by The Eels.

The shot on the left below features the remains of a car – I watched it rust away completely over 2 years – sadly, I’m missing the rest of the photos.