KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
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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.
[(L to R) © Juliette Pavy / © Sebastiao Salgado]
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
JAMIE BRITTON recommends this fine analysis of the architectural, ecological and infrastructural destruction of the Gaza Strip
NADIA JOSEPH welcomes a survey of the role that TV played in the debate over apartheid and race relations in Britain
Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition
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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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