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On Criticism and Patronage
I like my reading matter to reflect my surroundings, so while I was in Ukraine recently I decided to tackle Vassily Grossman’s Life and Fate. A vast meandering novel with more than a few similarities...
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Review – Bending the Frame by Fred Ritchin
The digital revolution is heralding unprecedented change in virtually all industries. Perhaps not since the industrial revolution began over two centuries ago have we seen innovation that has been so...
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War, Photography, Memory
Today is the anniversary of the armistice which ended the First World War, and next year will mark the centenary of the start of that conflict. Already radios and televisions thunder with the crash of...
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The Limits of Editions
Editioned prints are the norm in the art photography world, and are increasingly available from documentary photographers and even photojournalists. Despite this widespread use I find it a little...
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Review – Bunker Archaeology by Paul Virilio
Paul Virilio Technical limitations sometimes define outcomes in photography as much as things like aesthetic considerations or political agendas. Early photographers were limited by the nature of their...
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A Call For Projects
Marks from a bench, BudapestFrom The Memory of History (2012) I’m really pleased to say I’ll be curating my first exhibition next year. While I have an idea of some of the work I would like to show,...
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New Year, New News
About six months ago I decided to formalise things on the blog a bit more, with a regular schedule including set days for new posts. This has worked pretty well but is rather inflexible, sometimes I...
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Top Secret: Photography, Surveillance and the Archive
As stated before I plan to move away from traditional reviews this year, particularly of things like photo books which are already extensively reviewed on other sites (although perhaps not always with...
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Vivian Maier and the Photograph in the Age of Narcissism
On to my desk recently thudded a large book of self-portraits by the American street photographer Vivian Maier. Her story has been widely circulated since she was discovered several years ago but it’s...
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Notes on the Media, Photography and Nationalism
‘The Emperor was an old man. He was the oldest emperor in the world. All around him, Death was drawing his circles, mowing and mowing. Already the whole field was bare, and only the Emperor, like a...
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