Australian born Jules Wright (1948-2015) nurtured original female talent through the Women’s Playhouse Trust and founded The Wapping Project in 1981. Wright was the first resident female director at the …
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“The camera is a time machine capable of representing the sense of time. It can capture more than a single moment, it can capture history, geological time, the concept of …
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“As time passes by and you look at portraits, the people come back to you like a silent echo.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004). Two exhibitions of fashion and portrait photography …
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The 1980s were a turbulent time in Britain: amidst the social discontent caused by opposition to Thatcherism came more sudden, violent bursts of unrest. In Brixton, in 1981 and 1985, …
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Notions of what it means to be human are changing continuously. Shortlisted for the 2017 Aesthetica Art Prize, multidisciplinary artists Webb-Ellis work in film, installation and performance, weaving universal stories …
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Kristoffer Axén’s practice is centred around surrealism and solitude, examining imagined existences. This idea manifests both literally – as images are combined to create one, post-produced composite – and metaphorically …
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Marcus Møller Bitsch is a Danish photographer from Aarhus, Denmark, currently based in Paris. His most recent series asks questions about the nature of memories: their veracity, our interactions with …
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Human activity and its power to transform the world is the theme at the heart of Ali Kazma’s (b. 1971) practice. He is fascinated by the idea of work, in …
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Magnum photographer Moises Saman (b. 1974) is recognised for capturing powerful documentary images of conflict in the Middle East. The World Press Photo Award-winner is published in The New York …
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In 1960, a devastating earthquake destroyed much of the modernist Moroccan city of Agadir. Multimedia artist Yto Barrada addresses the process of reinvention through film, sculptures and a series of …
