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Already the title of the book is sublime Whatever You Say, Say Nothing! This is the book by Gilles Peress. It’s an event. Something rarely experienced. See the birth of a monument that will be in all libraries worthy of the name at the end of the year. It has been awaited for almost 50 years, since that day in 1972 in Ireland that made history as Bloody Sunday. Crazy…

Minority Claim - Text by Gilles Peress This is an old book, a book stillborn, the book that “never was,” about a time now gone that was bleak, dark, and violent, filled with secrets and murders. I had travelled to the North of Ireland in the 1970s — after the reintroduction of internment in 1971; prior to and during Bloody Sunday in 1972; and several times thereafter — but it…

Describe EVERYTHING - Text by Gilles Peress In Whatever You Say, Say Nothing I have attempted to describe time in the helicoidal structure it assumed during the Troubles in the North of Ireland, where today is not only today but all the days like today; days of violence, days of marching, of riots, of unemployment, of prison, of mourning, and also days of “craic” where you try to forget your…

Reality’s Forceful Vengeance - Text by Gilles Peress I now realize that when it comes to photography, the project of doing a book is always a folly. The book very quickly takes over and dictates; the stylistic consistency that the book demands becomes a choke not only on photography but also on perception itself. It’s a bit as if the poem were strangling the poet. Of course if I were…

The Closeness of Place - Text by Donovan Wylie Growing up in Belfast in the 1970s, many photographers visited to photograph “The Troubles”. I remember sitting in my school class, and sure enough every few weeks a photojournalist would turn up and photograph us while we were studying. Northern Ireland became a spectacle for photographers, who often created the set by paying children to throw stones. And then the photographers…

An Almanac - Text by Chris Klatell I wasn’t initially eager to take on, with Gilles, what became the Annals of the North. But Gilles and his wife Alison Cornyn insisted that Whatever You Say, Say Nothing needed to be accompanied by some kind of guide or reader, and I was determined to do whatever it took to bring the overall project into the world. The idea of a simple,…

Text by Chris Klatell The longest essay in Annals of the North dives into the mysterious, cinematic story of Denis Donaldson, Gilles’ closest friend in the North during the 1980s. Denis, a Republican stalwart, present at the rebirth of the IRA in the early 1970s, friend to Bobby Sands and Gerry Adams, was later revealed to have been in the pay of British intelligence since the mid-1980s. After twenty years…

The Battle for History - Texte par Chris Klatell The first copies of Whatever You Say, Say Nothing and the Annals of the North left Steidl almost 100 years to the day after the partition of Ireland on May 3, 1921. Had the books been published earlier, closer to the 1998 Good Friday Agreement and before Brexit and the reawakening of nationalism across Europe, they might have been received as…

Marie Tomanova is a true whirlwind and the latest discovery when it comes to contemporary female photographers. The Czech-born grew up in a South Moravian border town, Mikulov. After receiving a painting MFA (2010), she left to United States where she still lives and works. Turning to photography displacement, identity, gender, and memory became key themes in her work. I met her at her exhibition during a press tour as part…

From the perspective of a young female photographer, MONEYGAME presents a fresh, respectful, and humanizing window into the world of strippers and exotic dancers. “Moneygame is full of photographs that depict this world where women rule the stage” “For the last four years,” says photographer Elizabeth Waterman, “I’ve spent most of my Saturday nights in strip clubs, photographing and building a rapport with the strippers and exotic dancers who make…

With this exhibition, Willy Rizzo gives a testimony of the Cannes Film Festival from the 1950s to the 2000s. Twenty signed and numbered color and black and white photographs, mostly unpublished, transport you to the film festival that has become the most glamorous on the planet for half a century. A moment of escape in the heart of this iconic place that fascinates the whole world! The Cannes Glamorous Festival…

The photographic identity of a city or a country is never trivial. If Paris, London, New York, France, the United States and many others benefit, from this point of view, from a privileged treatment, Belgium has rarely been an object of creations for an author, to the exception perhaps of Brussels. La Belgique, l'air de rien, copious book imagined by the French photographer Bernard Plossu, with the diversity of his…

Bea Nettles: Harvest of Memory  returns to the George Eastman Museum this summer. This exhibition of photographic and book works originally opened on January 31, 2020, but just six weeks later, the museum closed due to COVID-19. While a virtual version was offered online, the Eastman Museum has brought back the exhibition of one-of-a-kind photographs for visitors to explore in person. It reopened on Friday, July 9, and will be on view…

Without necessarily waiting for the great sun, the light wind caressing one's face and the relative calm far from urban centers gently erase the confinement of recent months. Let’s breathe, let's savor! Sébastien Durand http://sebastiendurand.photo/