Unlike the shot fired in his heart by the poet José Asunción Silvia on the morning of the 24th of May 1896, that of Candelario Obeso (1849-1884) was heard in his home in Bogotá, the ninth road between Sixth and Seventh Street where, harassed by racial discrimination and due to […]
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From Art Cinema to Iranian execution list: Emir Hasanpor
– A glance behind the Curtain – “Religion overcasts on Iran’s sky like an octopus and people are controlled like stitch dolls, if anybody speaks something athwart is condemned to execution and easily done so”, says this Iranian independent film maker. Shanta Sultana The melancholy director, a […]
Great Britain, an island of identity
T.S. Eliot famously said that ‘culture’ was something that included ‘all the characteristics, activities and interests of a people’, an apt definition for British identity. The Prisma’s Memoirs. November 2012 Georgina Campbell It is by no means an easy feat to pinpoint specifically what British culture is and […]
A different view of Peckham
Around 25,000 people of different geographical, cultural and ethnic origin interact and share social spaces. The only thing they have in common is a general lack of wealth. Javier Marcos Getting to Peckham isn’t easy. It’s not on a Tube line, and though an overland train will get […]
A journey to the heart of The City
Thousands of people move quickly from side to side oblivious to anything not work-related. This is London at its most impersonal.– – Javier Marcos – The never ending toing and froing renders it inescapable, with impeccably turned out businessmen going from side to side, glued to their mobile phones. They […]
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