Mimi Mollica says that his photograph of the moon above London presents something of a\u00a0dichotomy. \u201cThere is an element of surprise in seeing the moon in proximity to our terrestrial life, a \u2018wow\u2019 factor,\u201d the Sicily-born photographer explains. \u201cAnd yet this photo also democratises her; bringing her down to Earth, almost touching a\u00a0building.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mollica took the shot from the balcony of his top-floor flat, which overlooks a skyline spanning from the Docklands to central London. It was mid-spring, and he\u2019d woken around 4am. Unable to get back to sleep, he used his iPhone 13 Mini against\u00a0the viewfinder of his telescope. He has now captured enough images in this way to fill a photography book, Moon City<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen I am on my balcony, especially when\u00a0most of London is\u00a0sleeping, I feel like the captain of a ship taking to the sky,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u00a0can sometimes hear hammers and voices from building sites, the hoots of birds or sirens in the distance, but mostly just the quiet. I\u00a0find it very therapeutic.\u201d<\/p>\n Mollica insists there were \u201cno dirty tricks\u201d involved in editing the shot. \u201cI always try to make my adjustments as I am taking pictures, not after, mainly because I can immediately visualise the outcome,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n He recalls the time his daughter Nora, aged three, insisted the moon, reflected on the canal they were walking beside, was following them. \u201cThe moon has always occupied a special place in our collective imagination,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mimi Mollica says that his photograph of the moon above London presents something of a\u00a0dichotomy. \u201cThere is an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":["post-490041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}