An interest in photography is being challenged by a steady diet of photobooks devoted to a photographer’s pet project that do little to provoke reflection beyond wondering how such banal work ever finds a publisher. Sean Sheehan A welcome relief is a new book devoted to the work […]
Culture
Migration begins at home: a Filipina story
Most Filipinos are poor, and migration is part of the culture, often to countries that colonised them. Life in a Catholic country where divorce is illegal is very hard when families need one member to migrate. Women workers often live in conditions of domestic slavery, where a private life is impossible.
What Israel did
The whole world knows what Israel is doing but the historical background – what took place in 1948 – is not as well known. Salman Abu Sitta was a child of ten when it happened and he remembers what took place in his memoir “Mapping my return”. Sean Sheehan […]
Theatre in the skies
Bird photography took flight when limitations in the technology were overcome in the 21st century. The 200 photographs by more than fifty practitioners of the art that make up “Aviary: the bird in contemporary photography” bear astonishing testimony to what is n possible. Sean Sheehan The book’s two […]
At the Red Rose silk factory
The Soviet textile artist Anna Andreeva (1917-2008) worked at the Red Rose silk factory in Moscow from the 1940s to the 1980s. Inspired by the Russian avant-garde, primarily the Constructionist movement, her work broke down simplistic divisions between high art and craft. Sean Sheehan The Constructivist movement, taking […]
















