Fred Herzog is a pioneer who mastered colour photography before such a thing respectably existed. Genius.
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In a past life, I was a film teacher, photographer, theatre director and film editor. Now a psychogeographer and Jungian explorer searching for my Anima, and some purpose.
Cornel Lucas. Portrait of Dirk Bogarde and Barbara Murray. 1958.
“It says something really beautiful to me that so many people were willing to entertain my book. A book about hope and a book about forgiveness and a book about grief and disappointment. That those things are so valued makes me feel quite optimistic.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
‘Failure was my thing’: Women’s prize winner Virginia Evans on her long journey to success
The American author received ‘thousands of rejections’ over two decades before finally hitting gold with her first published novel
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RIP Justin Hardy. Justin who directed a sequel to his late father Robin's 1973 cult horror classic The Wicker Man, has died aged 61.
What I take away is that we have normalised so much destruction of what we can call “common ground”. Anything not deliberately, overtly owned is fair game for anything and anyone. apple.news/AfQlejVBaRua...
Country diary: Martha, a tribute to Buxton’s miners, has been knocked off her plinth. Why? — The Guardian
Buxton, Derbyshire: Acts of vandalism are not unusual. Have we normalised the destruction of ‘common ground’?
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A trip to Port Sunlight today. Built entirely on soap, featuring over 900 Grade II listed buildings, chocolate-box architecture designed by the creators of Blackpool Tower, and a surprising connection to the Beatles.
It is photographs we turn to, after all, to re-narrativise our lives, to reflect on distances travelled and the alternate turns we might have taken along the way. apple.news/AZAz7NA_IQP-...
Exhibition by Alex Hyde review – an elegiac love letter to the YBA era — The Guardian
London’s 90s art scene forms the backdrop to this tale of a complex relationship between two artists whose identities become entangled in their creative collaboration
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“Le Promenade” by Ukrainian artist Olena Kishkurno.
The story may be about maternal ambivalence, depression, the loss of meaning, but it always revolves around ideas of truth and pretence. Abra’s life does not feel “real”. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
Gaining Ground by Joan Barfoot review – Anne Enright celebrates a landmark feminist novel
Half a century on, this tale of a woman who abandons her children in search of her self remains thrillingly original
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Cheryl Newman. One Hundred Yards from Home. A collaboration with her 99-year-old mother, Carol. "Photographing my mother has allowed me to reconnect with her in ways I haven't since childhood.”
Polly Braden. London's Square Mile: A Secret City. People and their environment.
The finished film was a fascinating mix of Kubrickian irony and Spielbergian sentimentality. The odyssey of a robot boy who longs for the love of his human mother across aeons of time ends in a symphony of yearning and sadness. apple.news/ARACuHGaUQQe...
A.I. at 25: the Spielberg film that feels more unsettling than ever — The Conversation UK
Long before ChatGPT, Spielberg’s A.I. explored love, loneliness and what it really means to be human.
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Bob Mazzer. Going underground. Mazzer’s pictures give us a lovely, daily document of the ups and downs of life and all those little, introspective bits in between.
#EastCoastKin #Scape #Landscape #ClassicMono Roadford Lake Latest Substack - a short photo documentary of the largest inland lake in the south-west. #Photography #PhotographersUnited #PhotographerofBluesky #Roadford #Devon
Roadford Lake
a drowned valley of settlements
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I was a mod back in the day, and fell for a girl who loved jazz. She was a model in an agency just off Piccadilly in Manchester. We were browsing in a record shop, chose this, and we sat entranced in her bedroom. My first love and my first ever jazz album. youtu.be/X2Age6yCCbI?...
Charles Lloyd (1966) [FOREST FLOWER]
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Erna Lendvai-Dircksen and August Sander both used typological portrait photography to document German people during the Weimar and Nazi eras, but differed sharply in: sociological scope versus nationalist romanticization, political alignment, and individual identity versus idealised racial types.
A slow camera doesn't have to mean a stiff or staged picture; it just changes what kind of trust you need to build before you can use it. Killip built that trust first, for months at a time, and only then did he bring out the tripod. apple.news/AfMsohNhVSrm...
Chris Killip spent months living in deindustrialised communities in North-East England, photographing some of the most intimate images of 1970s and '80s Britain – using a huge camera that was never bu...
A new edition of his book North reveals how the wrong tool for candid photography became his greatest asset.
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