There is something jarring about having Martin Parr select the photographs in Tom Wood 101 Pictures. It is not so much his patronising words […]…
The photographs in Tariq Zaidi’s Sapeurs: Ladies and Gentlemen of the Congo are not easy to forget. Their context is highly specific – Brazzaville […]…
Mired in Memory by Sean Sheehan T.S. Eliot’s words in The Waste Land about the mixing of memory and desire could serve as an […]…
Photographing the Neoliberal Frontier States close to the Persian Gulf are famous for stunning building projects like Burj Khalifa in Dubai, Abu Dhabi’s Louvre […]…
The photojournalist Ed Clark (1911-2000) has slipped below the radar despite having worked continuously from the 1930s to the early ‘60s. He worked primarily […]…
Written by Sean Sheehan Everyone Waiting for Godot ‘When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like […]…
To have been in Berlin in April and May of 1945 was to witness the end of World War II in Europe and the […]…
Amak Mahmoodian lives in the UK but her work as a photographer places her firmly in Iran – better still, in Persia– just as […]…
The challenge for portrait photography is to provide a meaningful response to the question that lies behind our interest in the faces of people. […]…
Helen Levitt is in a class of her own and the singularity of her photography is probably inseparable from the distinctive contour of her […]…