I am a photographic artist, interested between the relationship between photography and archaeology. For this a-n New Collaborative Bursary project I am collaborating with Keir Stickland, an archaeologist working in the Department of Archaeology at Orkney College. Keir’s primary research […]
A collaborative research project with Carolyn Lefley (artist) and Keir Strickland (archaeologist) recording an art/archaeology survey of the abandoned island of Swona, off the Orkney Islands, in August 2014. This blog records our preparations/research/findings.
For the latest in our series focusing on art books, Tim Clark puts Stephen Gill’s Talking To Ants under the microscope and delights in humdrum views of Hackney embellished by in-camera photograms.
Childrens (and grown-ups) candid camera photographer www.ohanley.co.uk at @Elsie’s_Place
When my Soldier’s child came back from an exhibition a while ago, it occurred to me that my father had been a soldier’s child too. His father had fought in WWI and returned with a disease of the heart (not metaphorically speaking). […]
Upon entering the exhibition space the sculpture Pipe Smoker greets you. This is quickly followed by the obligatory vinyl text blurb on the white wall situated next to a line of exhibition posters which allow an insight into the breadth […]
Two weeks ago I went on a long planned art-outing with A., to see Matisse‘s cut-outs at Tate Modern. The two Tates are good places for me to visit as I can whizz about on one of their electro-scooters (why don’t other […]
Japan Drug by António Júlio Duarte, the new title from Portuguese publishers Pierre von Kleist Editions, excels with its focus on quiet and luminous photographs depicting a country at the dawn of a new millennium.
Arts Council Wales has announced that photographic artist Helen Sear will be representing Wales at the 2015 Venice Biennale.
Shining a spotlight on former Yugoslavia’s 1980s’ counter-culture, Jo
It’s not exactly a vintage year for the highly-coveted Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, hosted by The Photographers’ Gallery, but one shortlisted artist in particular makes a bold statement for the award.
Emma Smith, former Head of Creative Enterprise at the Bluecoat, will lead the biennial festival through next phase of growth.
Roe Ethridge’s latest photobook, Sacrifice Your Body, is a searing exploration of the real making itself present in an artificial world, and provides plenty for Tim Clark to think about.
For the latest in our PICTURED series, Tim Clark turns his attention to PARTY, Spanish photographer Cristina de Middel’s reworking of Chairman Mao TseTung’s bible of communism.
The recent Europa Re-Imagined symposium in Cardiff was the latest event organised by the European Prospects project, exploring issues of experience and identity through photography and contemporary art in Europe. Rory Duckhouse reports.
The First Person Plural conference at London’s Media Space set out to reflect on the legacy of photographer Tony Ray-Jones and examine issues associated with photography in the digital age, while also speculating on the medium’s future. Tim Clark reports from the one-day event.
Published on the occasion of his exhibition at the Hungarian House of Photography in Budapest, Arion Gábor Kudász’s new monograph maps the logic of memory through a photographic exploration of his late mother’s personal belongings.
For the latest in our series focusing on art books, Tim Clark sits down with Ping Pong Conversations and is enthralled by the long, friendly discussion between stalwart of American lyrical documentary photography Alec Soth and Italian critic and curator Francesco Zanot.
For the latest instalment of our regular Pictured series focusing on art books, Tim Clark reflects on Veramente, the career-spanning monograph from pioneer of new Italian landscape photography, Guido Guidi.
For the latest instalment in our series, Tim Clark considers the carefully fabricated world of Robert Zhao Renhui, whose pairings of photographs and text blur fact and fiction to address our lack of regard for the natural environment.
For this year’s London Art Fair, Edel Assanti gallery has been invited to guest curate Photo50, focusing on the distinction between the material and the digital. We catch up with co-director Jeremy Epstein to learn more about the aesthetic dialogues they plan to draw out and the huge changes they are witnessing in the medium of photography.
For the first instalment of our Pictured series for 2014, Tim Clark picks up the weighty monograph from legendary Swedish photographer, Anders Petersen, and is blown away by its raw photographs that are brimming with kindness and fury, beauty and abjection.
