{"id":339723,"date":"2025-12-28T19:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T19:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/339723\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T19:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T19:06:10","slug":"crouch-hill-puts-sicily-and-london-on-show-in-photo-exhibit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/339723\/","title":{"rendered":"Crouch Hill puts Sicily and London on show in photo exhibit"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n The black and white images are part of a new show by North London photographers Luca Borrano and Paul Alcantara, currently on display at Coffee Circus in Crouch Hill.\n<\/p>\n

\n Mr Borrano, who was born in Sicily in 1969 and moved to London in 2002, studied art, design, and photography at the Istituto Statate d\u2019Arte di Catania.\n<\/p>\n

\n Laughter and friendship \u2014 a candid street portrait of three Sicilian children at play (Image: Luca Borrano)\n<\/p>\n

\n A selection of eight street portraits taken during his travels through remote parts of Sicily, featuring locals and children playing in the streets, are included in the exhibition.\n<\/p>\n

\n Mr Alcantara, a long-time photographer who studied fine art at the Hornsey School of Art and Camberwell Art College, offers a contrasting vision with photographs capturing some of London\u2019s most recognisable landmarks through his quirky lens.\n<\/p>\n

\n Concrete poetry \u2014 abstract lines and shadow play in modernist architecture (Image: Isokon)\n<\/p>\n

\n He is also known locally as a guitar teacher and for running the monthly acoustic music night, The Kalamazoo Klub.\n<\/p>\n

\n Childhood joy captured in Sicily \u2014 two school friends smile on their walk home (Image: Luca Borrano)\n<\/p>\n

\n The exhibition is open until the end of February, and prints are available for purchase by emailing lucabonanno@hotmail.co.uk<\/a> or via paulalcantara.co.uk.\n<\/p>\n

\n Coffee Circus is located at 136 Crouch Hill, N8 9DX.\n<\/p>\n

\n The exhibition is open until the end of February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The black and white images are part of a new show by North London photographers Luca Borrano and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-339723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}