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The art of framing the problem not solving it
Photographer STEPHEN GILL speaks to the Morning Star about the world he sees through the lens of his camera
(L to R) From Coexistence 2011; from Pigeons 2012; from Talking to Ants 2009; from The Pillar 2015 - 2019
[Stephen Gill]
ANGUS REID urges us to understand the persecution of Jason Arday from a political and historical perspective, and to see the victim in human terms
Re-releases of the classics Gypsy Rhumba and Buena Vista Social Club, and a stunning album by Palestinian artist Faris Ishaq
Nothing, says ANDY HEDGECOCK, can rescue this undistinguished amalgam of ponderous melodrama and shallow philosophical speculation
JAMIE BRITTON invites readers to visit 3,500 locals as part of a marathon artistic pub crawl
JOHN GREEN welcomes a valuable and incisive analysis of a world become hyperpolitical but without the mass movement institutions to represent it
Coming up for Air: Stephen Gill – A Retrospective
Arnolifini, Bristol
BRISTOLIAN Stephen Gill’s photography confounds all expectations. Like with Marmite you’ll either be intrigued or not bothered at all.
Anthropology, archaeology have been uttered as descriptions of the multilayered visual textures of his work. Is there any truth in that, we ask.
Gill is philosophical, he believes his early work are studies of people and the things we do and what we encounter: “It was a genuine interest and something I think photography is really good at; making such descriptive studies.”
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