The 1988 film, “They live”, tells the story of John Nada (read his name in Spanish) who finds a box full of sunglasses. Putting a pair on, he sees how ideology works by keeping the truth hidden.   Sean Sheehan   Visiting the Silk Roads exhibition at the British Museum […]

The Prix Pictet is an international award to photographers for their work in raising consciousness of important environmental and social issues. “Collage” is the title of the book bringing together some of the women photographers who have been nominated or shortlisted for the award since it began in 2008.   […]

Migrants move, leaving behind their familiar habitat and facing the task of finding a new one. For migrants, a new home can be a place of precarious safety, a habitat fraught with insecurity. This is what Alberto Gandolfo gives photographic form to in “Habitat”.   Sean Sheehan   Between 1900 […]

There can be a cadence to a sentence, dialogue or prose, a measure of its sense and sound. This is from an academic essay in a book called “New Materialisms”:   Sean Sheehan   “Death is overrated. The ultimate subtraction is after all only another phase in a generative process. […]