The Perversity of Propaganda

With the recent massacre largely aimed at young children in Houla, the war on the Syrian people reaches a new gruesome low. The images emerging out of Syria stand in stark contrast to the family friendly public profile the Assad regime attempted to promote in the past. As pointed out by the Washington Post, in…

Photography at the Bauhaus

Masters on the roof of the Bauhaus building, c.1926, From left to right: Josef Albers, Hinnerk Scheper, Georg Muche, László Moholy-Nagy, Herbert Bayer, Joost Schmidt, Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, Gunta Stölzl and Oskar Schlemmer. Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin/Centre Pompidou, Paris Bauhaus: Art as Life, currently on display at the Barbican Centre,…

Performing Solidarity in the Poznan

Manchester City supporters performing the ‘Poznan’ It marked a bizarre moment in the nail-biting final match of the British Premier League season. Adopted from the fanatical supporters of the Polish football club Lech Poznań, Manchester City fans started to do the so-called ‘Poznan’: a type of dance in which fans hold on to each others’…