David Fearn

@davidfearn

HoD & Professor of Greek, Classics & AH, University of Warwick – lyric poetics esp.: Here for the intellectual serendipity. When I can, large-format 🎞 photographer:

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David Fearn@davidfearn· 13d

Lyric Squadron iPhone mockup from 10x8 film negative on light panel. Yay! #believeinfilm #largeformat

David Fearn@davidfearn· 14d

An iPhone mockup of one of today's 10x8 compositions ... Greek Lyric paper aeroplanes ... though won't be anything close to what the actual prints will look like (hopefully). Nice to get the creative juices flowing again! #believeinfilm #8x10 #largeformat

David Fearn@davidfearn· 14d

Hopefully some funky macros…

David Fearn@davidfearn· 14d

A day of leave. Time for some photo projects to get going...

David Fearn@davidfearn· Jul 4

Sappho is a street photographer, no? (Hands off, Sappho, these are my pics, not yours!) NB added ultra-micro-fragments from a bit of work-in-progress... #Leica #Venice #Oxfordshire #Sappho

Girl in red dress walking away from camera with onlooking waiter, Piazza San Marco, Venice.

Canal barge window and curtain detail. "Birds"

'... and the luminous glimmer of her face...'

'The recalcitrance of Sappho 16 in being unwilling to, as it were, flesh out...'

David Fearn@davidfearn· May 31

Boatyard Bikes May 2026 Leica M11 / 35mm f/1.4 Summilux-M ASPH

High-contrast B&W photograph of a couple of bicycles propped up against a wooden staircase in a pool of light in the centre of the frame, surrounded by deep shadows and a couple of canal barges.

David Fearn@davidfearn· May 31

Job Centre Plus : Try Harder May 2026 Leica M11 / 35mm f/1.4 Summilux-M ASPH Panoramic Xpan 65:24 crop #leica

High-contrast B&W panoramic photograph of a town-centre Job Centre exterior in top half of frame; job centre sign to left, 'try harder' daubed on wall to right and cordoned off with steel barricade; foreground is poory repaired potholed street with fading 'keep clear' paint

David Fearn@davidfearn· May 23

Tate Modern Window View #Leica

16x9 vertical view out of Tate Modern window onto vertical skyscraper and crane; muted cyan and yellow colours with deep shadows.
Leica M11, 21mm f/3.4 Super-Elmar-M ASPH

David Fearn@davidfearn· May 23

Four recently edited, almost at random, photos from the last couple of years. Leica, digital and film, M11 and MP; 21mm and 35mm; Kodak Portra 400 home-developed in Bellini C41 Chemistry. Venice and Argyll #Leica #Believeinfilm

Venice Rooftops from San Marco campanile
Leica M11, 35mm f/1.4 Summilux-M ASPH

Super-wide-angle bedroom scene, Auchindrain Township Museum, Argyll
Leica MP, 21mm f/3.4 Super-Elmar-M ASPH, Kodak Portra 400, Bellini C41

Super-wide-angle view of sink with light flooding in from the window, Auchindrain Township Museum, Argyll
Leica MP, 21mm f/3.4 Super-Elmar-M ASPH, Kodak Portra 400, Bellini C41

David Fearn@davidfearn· May 13

Job Centre, England, 2026 "This is England today, man: all you have to do is look out the bloody window" (to quote Roy Bland to George Smiley, from the original BBC TV Tinker Tailor)...

B&W photo of a job centre, with "TRY HARDER" daubed on the wall outside.
Cordoned off with steel fencing, presumably for cleaning off, but not yet erased.

David Fearn@davidfearn· May 12

Always a photo opportunity on FAB floor 2! @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social #Classics #Leica

Pic of Greek pot in Classics department antiquities room window display. Shot at wide-open aperture for prominent specular-highlight 'bokeh balls' that this spectacular lens produces.
Leica M11, 75mm f/1.4 Summilux-M

David Fearn@davidfearn· May 9

Deep Dynamic Brambles April 2022 Leica MP, 50mm f/2 Dual-range Summicron Kodak Portra 400 home-developed in Bellini C41 Manual inversion in photoshop

David Fearn@davidfearn· May 9

A few newly-edited film pics. Oxfordshire/Derbyshire #Leica #Kodak #Portra

David Fearn@davidfearn· Apr 25

Evening Green Alkanet #Leica

Image of Green Alkanet (small blue flowers) against a background of green bramble leaves. muted colours, shallow depth of field, cool low light early evening.
Leica M11, 75mm f/1.4 Summilux-M at f1/.4

David Fearn@davidfearn· Apr 13

Basement, super-wide view Palais de Tokyo Paris April 2026 #Leica #superwide

Super-wideangle view of the basement of Le Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Leica M11, 21mm f/3.4 Super-Elmar-M ASPH

David Fearn@davidfearn· Apr 11

Remarkable.

David Fearn@davidfearn· Apr 10

Uncannily haunting modernity from Jesse Darling, The Ambassadors - on show today at Palais de Tokyo, Paris. Fab installation! #Leica #yesimstillonholiday

David Fearn@davidfearn· Apr 9

Nice to see book by former student @claireheywood.bsky.social on the bookstand in Athens airport!

David Fearn@davidfearn· Apr 8

Pindar on Thebes ❤️

David Fearn@davidfearn· Apr 7

Female southern festoons are even more special (back of other camera shot; I have another of the distinctive f. ochracea which is even more cool). #delphi #greece #butterflies #definitelynotabusmansholiday