There are levels of response to Covid. We see increased expressions of commitment to others: e.g. volunteering with food deliveries, or sign-ups to community newsgroups. Steve Latham However, there is also the need for these same food deliveries, to families with parents laid-off, or ‘furloughed’ (where the money […]
In Focus
In Focus
Racism in photography
Visual representations of race are shot through with racist attitudes and “Decolonising the camera” examines this through a series of case studies. Sean Sheehan In 1945, Life magazine – a large-format (36cm by 26cm) and hugely influential publication – produced six pages of photographs showing the horrors that […]
A legacy of slavery: an inherited attitude of perpetrators vs. victims
What are the attitudes of both groups? What are the implications for social justice and for the healing of past hurts? Nigel Pocock Perpetrators: As you read this, people are screaming in pain, and longing for death. A torturer exercises his instrumental, and possibly, sadistic, will on them. […]
The Covid condition
I have a sore throat. I want to cough, but coughing could mean I have the virus. So, superstitiously, I stop myself. I figure that, if I really had it, then I wouldn’t be able to hold back. Steve Latham This is the crazy condition we’re in. Thinkers used […]
Poignant pictures of a noble life
This book, “Letter to Bruno Manser”, is a memorial to Bruno Manser and it begins with a photograph of the mountain that marks his last known location, before he vanished in 2000, and a letter: “Dear Bruno, if only you knew how many of your friends looked for you at […]
















