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a blog about photography by Sofia Silva
© Rip Hopkins, Procedure : filtration – separating big solids from liquid ; dish : beef stock, from the series Alchimistes aux Fourneaux, 2007 © Rip Hopkins, Procedure : stuffing – object in an object ; dish : stuffed pigeon, from the series Alchimistes aux Fourneaux, 2007 “This work is the result of my encounter…
Read More© Kate Potter, Untitled #14, from the series Dad’s Things © Kate Potter, Untitled #5, from the series Dad’s Things © Kate Potter, Untitled #10, from the series Dad’s Things To see more of Kate’s work click here
Read More© Philip Toledano, Untitled, from the series Days with my Father © Philip Toledano, Untitled, from the series Days with my Father Toledano’s Days With My Father began as a web-based photo journal with texts, cataloging a poignant series of photographs of his father after his mother’s death with accompanying texts by the artist. The…
Read More© Marysa Dowling, Portrait 028, Ireland, from the series The Dowling Study, Parts 1-7, 2005-07 © Marysa Dowling, Portrait 03, Stockport, UK, from the series The Dowling Study, Parts 1-7, 2005-07 “This collaborative family study spans four generations (involving all 32 blood related members of the family) and three countries, the UK, Ireland and the…
Read More© Marjolaine Ryley, Untitled, from the series Communion, 2003 © Marjolaine Ryley, Untitled, from the series Communion, 2003 “In 2003 I attended Braziers International Artists workshop and created the series of images ‘Communion’ . Having grown up living in squats and transitory communities as a child and hearing my parents talk about their time together…
Read More© Millie Burton, Mantlepiece, from the series Pictures from an Interior, 2004 © Millie Burton, Dresser, from the series Pictures from an Interior, 2004 “Pictures from an Interior (2004) is a photographic record and celebration of the house that my grandmother lived in from 1956 until 2008. She was a practical woman and did much…
Read More© Polly Braden, Untitled, from the series Adventures in the Valley, 2004 © Polly Braden, Untitled, from the series Adventures in the Valley, 2004 “A collaboration between Polly Braden & David Campany The River Lea runs from the Thames in east London up to Hertfordshire. Once a busy commercial waterway, it is now a nature…
Read More© Peter Fraser, Untitled, from the series 12 Day Journay, 1984 © Peter Fraser, Untitled, from the series 12 Day Journay, 1984 “I see photographs everywhere, like everyone else, nowadays; they come from the world to me, without my asking; they are only ‘images,’ their mode of appearance is heterogeneous…I realized that some provoked tiny…
Read More© Kathrin Spirk, Urban Nomads/Squatters in London, 2009 © Kathrin Spirk, Urban Nomads/Squatters in London, 2009 To see more of Kathrin’s work click here
Read More© Ally Birch-Probyn & Anni Skilton, Untitled #19, from the series Partners in Grime © Ally Birch-Probyn & Anni Skilton, Untitled #21, from the series Partners in Grime “We have been rummaging through skips for some time now and have established this lens based project from our findings. The contents of each interesting skip becomes…
Read More© Tamany Baker, Untitled, from the series Living with Wolfie, 2008 © Tamany Baker, Untitled, from the series Living with Wolfie, 2008 The series documents my response to the ‘presents’ that Wolfie, my beloved cat, brings into the home. At first, I experienced some kind of horror: these dead creatures waiting for me in different…
Read More© Tom Hunter, Sex Assault, from the series Living in Hell and Other Stories, 2004 © Tom Hunter, Murder: Two Men Wanted, from the series Living in Hell and Other Stories, 2003 “Murder: Two Men Wanted is a photograph whose title is directly taken from a Hackney Gazette headline. Its composition is based on Piero…
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© Rob Ball, Untitled #3, from the series The Grange, 2006 © Rob Ball, Untitled #8, from the series The Grange, 2006 “In December 2006 the hospital in which I was born closed after 97 years of service. The site was bought by a property developer and will soon consist of over 800 new…
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© Annabel Elgar, Torch, 2006 © Annabel Elgar, Legion, 2006 © Annabel Elgar, Prey, from the series Black Flag, 2004 “Annabel Elgar’s photographic works map out a borderland of fragile enclaves and lost directions. Staged encounters, with heightened foregrounds and a voyeur’s intimacy, are swiftly usurped by the notion that as fiction they…
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© Giles Revell, Eamonn McCabe, Portrait photographer, from the series Photofit “All portrait photographers focus on the eyes – when you set up a shoot, you make sure that there is light in that part of the face. But actually, the hair can be just as important. You get to a point in your career…
Read More© Esther Teichmann, Diptych, from the series Viscosity, 2005 © Esther Teichmann, Untitled, from the series Inward Bound, 2006 © Esther Teichmann, Untitled, from the series Inward Bound, 2006 “In her large-scale photographic works and video pieces Esther Teichmann examines the relationship of the self to the maternal body and to the body of the…
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© Carrie Levy, Untitled, from the series Untitled, 2000 © Carrie Levy, Untitled, from the series Untitled, 2000 “On Carrie Levy’s sixteen birthday her father was sentenced to four years in prison. Lost in a new world of furtive whispers at school and emptiness at home she immersed herself in photography. Desolate New…
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© E-J Major, Postcard, from the series Love is… © E-J Major, Postcard, from the series Love is… © E-J Major, Postcard, from the series Love is… “Love is… Three years ago, London-based artist E-J Major began asking strangers to divulge their thoughts on this most profound, yet indefinable subject. The answers, sent…
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