Reviews of A New Kind Of Wilderness, The Marching Band, Good One and Magic Farm by MARIA DUARTE, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA
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Instead of a thousand words
LYNNE WALSH’S choice are photographers prepared to focus on the outcomes of the politics of exclusion
(L to R) Juliette Pavy: Spiralkampagnen, 2024. An X-ray showing an IUD – more commonly known as a ‘spiral’ – used during the Greenlandic forced contraception campaign (Spiralkampagnen) from 1966 to 1975; Sebastiao Salgado: Ethiopia, 1984. Draped in blankets to keep out the cold morning wind, refugees wait outside Korem camp. Ethiopia.
SCOTT ALSWORTH foresees the coming of the smaller, leaner, and class conscious indie studio, with art as its guiding star
MARJORIE MAYO recommends an accessible and unsettling novel that uses a true incident of death in the Channel to raise questions of wider moral responsibility
MIK SABIERS wallows in a night of political punk and funk that fires both barrels at Trump
Reasonable radicalism, death in Abu Dhabi, locked-room romance, and sleuthing in the Blitz
SIMON DUFF recommends a new album from renowned composer and oud player Anour Brahem.
JAMES WALSH has a great night in the company of basketball players, quantum physicists and the exquisite timing of Rosie Jones
Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition
Somerset House
THIS is an eclectic showcase of talent, with a few hefty themes emerging, including mankind’s hand in the immolation of our beautiful planet.
Another thread, with some gut-punching images, is the ubiquitous violence against women and girls, and the soaring power of sisterhood, as female photojournalists focus on telling their sisters’ stories.
The star of the show, in many ways, is the amazing Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado, recipient of this year’s Outstanding Contribution to Photography.
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