Show and Tell: Michael Nyman

The jacaranda tree that I wake up to every morning Photograph: Michael Nyman I walk out of my house into Calle Campeche and find an accidental conjunction of images that are pure Mexico City, all in amazing dappled light Photograph: Michael Nyman A typical scene at my local Saturday-morning flea market, where I replenish my collections of Parker 51 pens and banquet photos that I started when I lived off London’s Portobello Road in the 1970s Photograph: Michael Nyman This market is a kind of rough and ready version of La Boqueria on the Ramblas in Barcelona Photograph: Michael Nyman On a trip to Veracruz, on a recce for a documentary, we talked with Miguel Garcia Cortes, the man responsible for reviving the city’s downtown culture Photograph: Michael Nyman Teatro Cine Opera is a cinema which has been unused since Bauhaus played here 10 years ago. It’s the subject of my latest film project Photograph: Michael Nyman In the cinema, light shines through the broken ceiling, but no projector will ever again light its screen Photograph: Michael Nyman