July 2011
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Regent's Canal
As if
water were
stone, we cycle
our eyes and ears
upon the towpath,
breathe harder,
and focus our way forward.
Our concentration
is swifting, but
as the canal moves along,
we notice—as
gently as if
cafe lattes were being
placed on pine-topped tables—
the changing scenes
on the canalside. We
do know, yes I think, this is the
Regent’s Canal, but
it is hard to know
what that means.
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Photography and freedom of expression. It’s not...
Image © Richard Wilhelmer
Source: Julius von Bismarck
Far less reported are incidences with security guards, public-space personnel (museums, galleries, swimming pools) and shop attendants. What it reveals is a wide mistrust of photographers. If you’re photographing, you’re seen as someone sinister, which is a view that the world is a dark and nasty place, where photographers are immediately...
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Indre Serpytype’s 1944-1991
Photos © Indre Serpytype, from her exhibition 1944-1991 at Rencontres d’Arles
One of Simon Baker’s, curator of photography at the Tate Modern, three nominations for the Arles 2011 Discovery Award is the young Lithuanian photographer Indre Serpytype. Her 1944-1991 project shows homes in Lithuania that were appropriated by the KGB for interrogation and...
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Arles Photo Festival Highlights Discovery Award... →
My article for PDN about Arles 2011
Photo © Graciele Iturbide, from her exhibition at Rencontres d’Arles 2011
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John Gossage – Berlin
Image © John Gossage