Trolls
Wikipedia defines an Internet troll as slang for “a person who starts flame wars or intentionally upsets people on the Internet by posting inflammatory and digressive, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community.”...
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The Cabbagehead
Years ago, I studied the work of a photomontage artist called John Heartfield. “Heartfield” is the adopted name of Helmut Herzfeld (1891-1968), a German adamantly opposed to the rising Nazi party in the 1920s...
The Perfect Post
This is on Instagram. My experience is, admittedly, very recent and very brief. But I absolutely love this one from the poet and writer Lavinia Greenlaw. The photo is of a pig with her snout in the...
Winning and losing…what?
I’ve agreed to review this new book, Co-illusion: Dispatches from the End of Communication (MIT, 2020), for Source Magazine, a journal of contemporary photography. It’s a very short review — just 300 words —...
Writing and Roaming
Roaming is a small community interest group I work with, based in Penzance, near the western tip of this island. The group — usually around 6 or 7, but it varies — has established...
Publishing Now
As long as I can remember, I’ve thought print was magic. At first, I believed it literally — magic as a way of making things happen that otherwise would not not happen. I remember...