AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev It is a simple, yet a strikingly powerful image: a woman looks at family photographs found in the rubble of the devastating earthquake and tsunami. The photographs have been meticulously cleaned and left to dry on clothing pegs in a school gymnasium in the town of Natori, Miyagi prefecture. Survivors are given…
1,500 prison inmates dancing in absolute harmony to Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’. The video filmed at Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) in the Philippines has become an internet sensation with more than 50 million views on Youtube. What makes the video so popular? In the original music video to ‘Thriller’ – a classic artifact…
Yurie Nagashima, Kazoku, 1993 In a previous blog post, I wrote about the photographer Yurie Nagashima whose photographs of herself and her family in the nude instigated a dramatic shift in Japanese visual culture. After exhibiting her phenomenally successful Kazoku series in 1993, Nagashima continued to interrogate photographic subjects related to gender, sexuality, representation and…