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Aesthetic extremes

Birds have never looked so utterly strange, gorgeous and non-human as they do in Tim Flack’s “Birds”. Set against completely black or white backgrounds, they are photographed with a starkness that renders them beautiful but also uncanny.   Sean Sheehan   Flack says the simple backgrounds help to heighten our […]

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Dialogues in representative democracy

An acquaintance from my neighbourhood had had a recent operation, when my partner found her in the local shop. Everything had gone well while in the hospital, our neighbour asserted, even the fact that she “shared a room with a white woman”.   Mabel Encinas   My partner was shocked […]