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Helga Paris

This is how Helga Paris, a photographer in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), came to take the photographs in “Women at work”.   Sean Sheehan   “Whenever I was at the shopping centre, I looked at people, watched them closely, imagined how they come home tired from work, before they […]

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Russia is not the Soviet Union

Many of us have confused our words between Switzerland and Sweden or Lebanon and Libya. Some people, when meaning Russia, end up mentioning the Soviet Union. The problem comes when one truly equates them.   Texto y fotos: Victor de Currea-Lugo*   Now, in the setting of the Ukraine war, […]

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The political symbolism of colour

How can people be conservatives? Surely no right-thinking individual would admit to being part of this antiquated tribe?   Steve Latham   This is especially so during this recession, with conservative governments throughout the globe cutting back on welfare, and choosing policies which favour the rich over the poor. But […]