Our new blogger, alias Afghan Hound, presents the first of his reports from his time in Afghanistan, or at least trying to get there: Ascent into chaos – Ariana’s new boomerang service and musings on Terminal illness.
Dutch photographer Jacqueline Hassink has earned a reputation as an assiduous cartographer of the symbols and manifestations of international economic power. In Domains of Influence she portrayed successful businesswomen from around the Arab world; in Table of Power she photographed the boardrooms of European multinationals. And again the symbolic life forms of globalised power constitute the subject of her latest book - Car Girls - an analysis of the models and saleswomen who work the motor shows from Detroit to Tokyo. She spoke to Guy Lane about the work.
Sergio Caro shares the story of George Sunday, from Nigeria, who recounts the extreme hardship he faces on his treks north, across Africa, in search of a better future in Spain.
Guy Lane reviews an account that ranges from the interwar work of Paul Nash and Humphrey Jennings to the photographs of Martin Parr and Susan Hiller in which Walker charts the use of the ordinariness of the photographic document to evoke the extraordinariness of the surreal.
Against a daily digest of falling stocks in markets around the globe one photo outfit is resisting the negative forces and flourishing with a growing presence across Europe. Ruby Russell speaks to Stewart Mungeam, about how an eye for quality photography and market savvy is underpinning growth.
A late posting for a worthwhile show. Right at the end of the Fringe festival, I visited the interesting Bellis Gallery, a particularly beautiful space that manages to be right in the centre of town yet off the tourist trail (8-9 Kings Road). The show was called Human Endeavour, and work by four recent graduates from Brighton University – Murray Ballard, Alex Currie, Richard Chivers and Simon Carruthers was well exhibited and intelligently curated.
Dutch Photographer Bert Teunissen has recently secured two grants that will enable him to complete the celebrated Domestic Landscapes series that he first worked on in 1996. On completion he will have visited eighteen countries and clocked up many thousands of kilometres on the continent's byroads. Now he has made the driving the subject of a new publication - On the Road.
Bert talked to Guy Lane about his latest work and the hours spent behind the wheel.
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