Mois de la Photo a Montreal
I’ve just written a review of Drone: the Automated Image, to appear in Source Magazine (Belfast). The book is a catalogue of the biennial exhibition Mois de la Photo Montreal, 2013. But this is...
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Lizard (Roaming Penzance)
Lizard was born at Roaming Penzance in 2013. Roaming is a community interest company that facilitates change, most often change in consciousness. It offers a kind of studio situation, with opportunities to draw, paint,...
Is Digital Photography?
Betulanimbusi, reproduced here, is one image from the elegant new catalogue of Deborah Baker’s photographs, In Paradiso. Her exhibition opened in London on Thursday, September 4, at the William Morris Museum. The catalogue includes my...
A “good” photograph
Is it “good”? Technically, it’s OK–comprehensible, decent colour, decent resolution. The family doesn’t look hysterically happy; everyone seems a little introspective by contemporary standards.. But it’s from 1947–probably the shot for the Christmas card. Another possible...
Babel Fiche
Dave Griffiths is a filmmaker who thinks seriously about history, and who has clearly been affected by Flusser’s thought. He is the kind of practitioner I’m sure Flusser meant by the term Einbildner (I...
Subject, Object and Motorcyle Maintenance
Rereading Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974) is a pleasure, maybe because it feels so comfortable. The road between Minneapolis and Bozeman means something to me, intersects with my family....