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  • Shilpa Gupta: Someone Else
    Review of ‘Someone Else’, Shilpa Gupta exhibition at Arnolfini, Bristol. Originally published on this is tomorrow. Words © Rowan Lear, 2012. Indian artist Shilpa Gupta has a multi-disciplinary practice, in which she explores identity, power and conflict on a transnational scale. This exhibition brings together five distinct works that subvert tec […]
  • TANT
    Reblogged from Ffotogallery's Book Arts Fayre: Last night Ffotogallery was the site for ‘TANT 0.1′ – the most recent issue of the dialogical experiment that is TANT. Rowena Finlayson, co-founder and co-editor, introduced the project in a discussion about self-publishing with Ffotogallery’s FORUM group. She describes TANT as a str […]
  • Let us tell the stories of the dead
    Writing on and around Victoria Cheape‘s ‘Let the old dead make way for the young dead’, as exhibited in Streetlevel Photoworks, Glasgow, as part of Futureproof 2011. Words © Rowan Lear, 2011. Pictures © Victoria Cheape, 2011. In an unobtrusive corner of the gallery, a quiet kind of immortalizing is taking place. Sixteen black and white prin […]
  • This is a photograph
    This is my Grandma’s house in Devon. I think that’s one of my cousins with my Grandma’s dog Yarty. My brother and I used to go there in the summer when I was wee. We had a paddling pool in the back garden. This is me with my dog Jane. My hair is really short [...]
  • My brother’s photograph
    I am sitting on the floor of a small room surrounded by hundreds of photographs. They cover the floor, the chairs, the table, the shelves, my bed. I have begun to mount them onto index cards, which has enabled me to begin to estimate how many I have. At the moment 400 cards have been [...]
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