February 2010
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Feb 25th
“What? A fee for not using your credit card? Let me see if I can re-enact the...”
–  JON STEWART, on credit card companies and the creative ways their screw their customers, on The Daily Show.
Feb 25th
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Feb 22nd
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Feb 22nd
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Feb 22nd
Feb 15th
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Images © Alexey Titarenko . Alexey Titarenko St. Peterburg . I can’t help thinking that the myth of the flanêur photographer, of the lone male, his eye keenly tuned to the ‘decisive moment’ as he stalks the city, perpetuated by the ARTE documentary below, is also a trap for a photographer. Titarenko says his ideas are passive, they need the city to activate them. This is like...
Feb 14th
189 collective
I’m interested in the relationship we, as a group, have. We’re all from different backgrounds, but we share a common goal: to document. We also share a common ground from which to approach the project, the ground is the one we were taught on the MA. We are learning ways of representation, some traditional, some new, but nearly all rooted in the artworld.  But what is the flip-side of...
Feb 10th
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Blumen by Collier Schorr
Image © Collier Scholl 2010 New York-based photographer Collier Schorr has been shooting in Germany for 13 years. Part documentary, part anthropology, her fictional contructions of the German landscape were first seen in the first book of her Forest and Fields series. Blumen by Collier Schorr is published by SteidlMack (ISBN: 978-3-86521-687-8), priced £25. Steidlville.com Blumen (flowers)...
Feb 10th
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Reinaldo Loureiro talks about life as a photographer after graduation. Article © Julian Lass 2010 All images © Reinaldo Loureiro www.reinaldoloureiro.com The largest concentration of plastic greenhouses in the world is in Almeria, south Spain. Photographer Reinaldo Loureiro went to explore its social and economic landscape in 2007 after graduating from an MA in Photojournalism and...
Feb 9th
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CIRCLE LINE PROJECT My MA course did this with Olympus and Transport for London as part of the sponsorship for our show. Olympus kindly paid for our catalogue. Many thanks to Brett Van Ort, who did most of the work to set this up. My project was MONUMENT, but I like Canon Street and the CCTV type pictures (the top three) in Farringdon the best. Aldgate’s got something dirty going on too.
Feb 2nd