Joshua Lutz, Sunrise over Saint Francis, 2012 Marco Bohr: In September 2012 you published a photobook titled ‘Hesitating Beauty’ which I reviewed in a previous blog post. The book is a haunting collection of photographs, text and family snapshots that, in sum, deals with your complex family history. More specifically, the book explores your mother’s…
Taken from Occupy Gezi Facebook page. Also used by Reuters A woman in a red dress sprayed with what appears to be pepper spray in Istanbul’s Gezi Park. The image vividly illustrates the popular uprising in Turkey: a young and vibrant youth movement suppressed by the state. The power of the image partially relates to…
Simone Kappeler, Trinity College, 11.10.2011 Darkened Days, a series of black and white photographs by the Swiss artist Simone Kappeler, is currently being shown at the Douglas Hyde Gallery – a phenomenal space physically located within, though still independent of, Trinity College in Dublin. Gallery visitors dramatically descend into the vast cube-shaped space via a…