This Is Not A Brothel
by Iryna Goodall
Title
This Is Not A Brothel
Artist
Iryna Goodall
Medium
Photograph
Description
"This Is Not A Brothel
There Are No Prostitutes
At This Address" says the sign at the entrance to the house at 7 Meard Street in London's Soho.
This is where Sebastian Horsley, a London artist, used to live.
In 2007 he wrote: "I put the sign on my door a few years ago because I actually used to run a brothel out of here since you ask. I stopped two years ago. I got robbed and people kept kicking the door in. I have to say it all got a bit out of control - even for my liking.
So I determined to turn my brothel into a home. I had the sign made to keep prospective punters away and also as a kind of Dadaist piece. Since it went up all kinds of people have come to stare at it and take pictures of it."
First place in the "Locks And Things Found On Or Around Doors In Photographic Images" contest sponsored by "Favorite Photographic Images
Second place in the "Writing On The Wall" contest sponsored by "Writing On The Wall" group 09/24/2019.
Second place in the "Typographic Art" contest hosted by Priscilla Wolfe 04/07/2020.
Second place in the "Caption This" contest hosted by Scott Goldstein 06/01/2020.
Second place in the "Satire Making Light Joke" contest hosted by Alan Terpid 07/07/2020.
Third place in the "Minimalism And The Funny Side Of It" contest hosted by Bill Czappa 12/28/2019.
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July 29th, 2018
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