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“Photography between Labour and Capital” excerpt from the essay by Allan Sekula, in Photography/Politics Two, pub 1986 “Why stress these economic realities at the outset, as if to flaunt the ‘crude thinking’ often called for by Bertolt Brecht? Surely our […]
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CLOTHES FOR THE JOB Love the flying suit designs… All from the book “Clothes for the Job” which was published by the Science Museum, 1985. The clothes is in their archive collection, which I hope to visit soon… Just got […]
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impossebility of telling… I wanted to write more, so much more, but my temporary job has been so non-stop that I feel like a zip file, all packed full of information, impressions, encounters, thoughts, notes, images…it wil take some time […]
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I was just alerted to a wonderful series of photographs by Irving Penn called ‘Small Trades’, which were on show at the Getty Centre, New York, January this year. I really like the performative in these images, the way their […]
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RESEARCH IMAGES OF WORKERS IN BOOKS & ARCHIVES – PART 2 Collective portraits I was particularly struck by the formal portraits of teams of workers – looking at their expressions, and the order of who stands where – does this […]
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RESEARCH IMAGES OF WORKERS IN BOOKS PART 1 A collection of some of the research images from books on workers, industrial relations, labour, globalisation…
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…on the way to work I noticed that a morning sun has melted frost on the grass, where the building opposite no longer cast its shadow. the shadow moved by the sun. I leave my shadow on the landscape… on […]
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CLOTHES FOR THE JOB Today was 10th day of my temporary job, though it feels like more time then that has passed. Maybe this sense of having been here longer is there because I have stretched it out to 3 […]
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Introducing the GUEST (part 2) These are just some thoughts behind the creation of a character, another persona, that of a GUEST for my temporary job as an ‘artist in residence’ with the University of Bath’s Institute of Contemporary Interdisciplinary […]
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Introducing the GUEST (part 1) A trouble of not writing the blog from the first day of my job is that I have accumulated so many notes and thoughts that the very burden of them prevents me from starting to […]
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So, yes, I have made the selection (for now at least) from 450 images!!! Posting here are a few of the selected images…
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Yesterday I heard that Marija, whom I photographed last year, and visited this year (see 9th April post) has died. I felt a sudden thump in my belly and a sense of loss that has stayed with me…She died one […]