Alberto Lizaralde’s self-published book, everything will be ok, is an intensely private journey through grief, hope and recovery. Nominated for this year’s Paris Photo Aperture Foundation First Book Award and co-edited by celebrated photographer Cristina De Middel, it’s quickly turning heads – Tim Clark’s included.
Flounce ruffle furbelow frill – the words loll on my tongue, adornments, embellishments, extra. Sewn on cuffs and collars they add a flourish, soften, feminise; without context though the fabric of certain terms is liable to change, will suddenly carry […]
Rhonda Wilson, the founder of the Birmingham-based photography review festival Rhubarb:Rhubarb, has died following a long illness.
So this week has been a bit of a manic one for me….mostly through my own doing. In my attempt to bring one of the ideas for my MA series to fruition I started yapping to people on twitter last […]
London is set to welcome the return of a major photography fair to the capital, but with new ownership, more participating commercial galleries and a public programme, reflecting the ever-growing interest in the medium.
Firstly I would like to start by saying that my husband thinks that I use that word far too much. But I do feel that it is warranted. Whilst doing a lot of reading for the research part of my […]
A couple of weeks ago I bought a second-hand crochet piece on-line, half bib, half collar. I wanted to add it to my small collection of outfits&objects that help me explore, call into, fall into, the time my dad was a […]
In Photo Show, editor Alessandra Mauro offers a kaleidoscopic look at 12 landmark photography exhibitions and perhaps a new perspective from which to approach the medium. Tim Clark is excited by the first book of its kind.
When Sonia Boué tweeted b/w images from the Oxford-London train of the globetrotter-suitcase and later her face she seemed a time-traveller from the 30s/40s, on her way to meet me at a flat temporarily located in 2014’s London (so I […]
Published to accompany the exhibition at the current Brighton Photo Biennial, The Archive of Modern Conflict’s latest journal casts light on the dark and vicious era of Italy’s ‘Years of Lead’. Tim Clark takes a look at this rich and tautly edited photobook.
I have become obsessed with a Mickey Mouse look-alike! Didn’t think I’d ever write that sentence and certainly not in the context of my project, but there it is. You may remember the images of toys at the end of […]
‘There is not story that is not true” Chinua Achebe Working with the parents group at Midland Road Children’s Centre in Manningham, Bradford over the past weeks, I’m struck by their fantastic stories. They are full of banter and […]
The inaugural £5,000 Jerwood/Photoworks Awards has launched with the aim of attracting proposals in relation to ‘new approaches to photography’.
After a couple of months being away from art by working hard over summer to earn some money, as I’m sure most university students do. I wanted to immerse myself in art again so I decided to plan a trip […]
For the latest photobook in the celebrated In Almost Every Picture series, the Dutch curator and editor Erik Kessels continues to delve into the treasure troves of vernacular photography to bring us imperfect images where the photographer’s hand appears in the frame. Tim Clark reveals more.
The last ten days have been particularly tired, physically as well as mentally: limbs leaden and airy, resisting coherence; pockets of pain here and there, sewn to skin; fleeting periods of full alertness and acuity. Doubts though, about my oh, so very […]
Tales of the pretty much expected….and sometimes not
Today my task in the studio was to adapt my working space. Yet again the objects that surround me were in flux. How many times have I arranged and rearranged, destroying one order and function to create another? The studio […]
Does Yellow Run Forever?, the latest monograph from British-born, New York-based artist Paul Graham, offers a seductive and dreamy meditation on what we seek and value in life – love, wealth or beauty? Tim Clark finds plenty to celebrate within its pages.
One night a couple of weeks ago my hands seemed half mine, half other, their tops as I knew them, but my palms hurt badly and felt as large as a giant’s: not swollen but grown or grafted on, and one with […]
Jessica Fulford-Dobson, Birgit Püve, Blerim Racaj and David Titlow have been named as the four shortlisted photographers for the £12,000 Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize.
