On a recent trip to Peru I made a visit to Casa Aliaga, a colonial mansion first built when Pizarro handed out goodies to his soldiers. One of them, Jerónimo de Aliaga y Ramirez, built a grand house and seventeen generations of his family have been living there since 1535. […]

When Simon Murphy’s “Govanhill” was first published it lost little time in selling out but the good news is that a second edition of 500 copies (five times the number of the first print run) is now available.   Sean Sheehan   Murphy has been photographing Govanhill, a neighbourhood of […]

Calling yourself a war photographer sounds very odd, as if the activity of killing other people is just the subject matter that some people find interesting. Tim Hetherington rejected the title and did want to see his work described in this way.   Sean Sheehan   Hetherington knew full well […]

Photographer Louis De Belle  likes to make the form of his monographs reflect what is meaningful about their content and with “Crowd” the challenge he faced was how a photobook about the taking of selfies could best be presented.     Sean Sheehan   “Since my first book I’ve always […]

A German officer visited Picasso in his studio in Paris during the Second World War and there he saw Guernica. What he viewed as a swirling mess of shapes provoked him into asking the artist “Did you do this?” to which he received the reply “No, you did this”.   […]