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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Grace Holliday

‘Geometric lines, strong colours and shadows created a striking image’: Anne Rayner’s best phone picture

A young child chases inflatable plastic balls around a yellow and black space
At Play, 2025, shot on iPhone 14. Photograph: Anne Rayner

Anne Rayner was enjoying a day out with her husband, Bob, and two-year-old granddaughter Phoebe when she took this photo. The three of them had headed into Newcastle city centre to find some fun, while Rayner’s daughter-in-law was caring for Phoebe’s siblings, six-month-old twin boys, at home.

Walking along the quayside and crossing the Gateshead Millennium Bridge, they pointed out landmarks to Phoebe as they went: the Tyne Bridge, the Glasshouse International Centre for Music. They arrived, eventually, at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, where Harold Offeh’s exhibition The Mothership Collective 2.0 was showing (it’s on until 18 January).

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