“This golden mile”, a photobook by Kavi Pujara, began life when Pujara started to photograph a neighbourhood around Leicester’s Golden Mile. Sean Sheehan He had spent the previous three decades living in London but Leicester was his hometown and it was time to make a journey that would […]
Book reviews
Suffering in Syria
Syria has been in a state of war for ten years and President Bashar-al Assad is still in charge of the country. The increasing evidence of his military victory has come at a devastating price: over 400,000 Syrians killed and a refugee crisis named by the UN as the largest […]
Chris Killip: opposing history
Exhibitions like the one currently on show at The Photographers Gallery in London are becoming precious at a time when art photography is increasingly devoted to personal projects of meagre public interest or so concept-driven as to risk disappearing up its own fundament. Sean Sheehan Chris Killip, in […]
Pleasure and pain in equal measure
Readers know that this feisty study of six of Keats’s poems promises something fresh when the author announces in her preface that any serious reading of Keats begins with the section on ‘Private Property and Communism’ from Marx’s “Economic and philosophical manuscripts of 1844”. Sean Sheehan Anahid Nersessian’s […]
Guides to a communist Valhalla
“Red Valkyries” is a very engaging and informative account of five remarkable women from the time when Eastern Europe was part of the Soviet Union. Sean Sheehan Readers may know about some of them, if only by name, but probably not all five, making this book a valuable […]