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My camera is my weapon
Three internationally renowned female photographers, whose work combines visual innovation, aesthetic brilliance and militancy, talk to JOHN GREEN
Images: Maryam Firuzi; Nowhere Near, Alisa Martynova
[Maryam Firuzi; Alisa Martynova]
DENNIS BROE searches the literary canon to explore why a duplicitous, lying, cheating, conning US businessman is accepted as Scammer-in-Chief
MIK SABIERS raises a glass of Lambrini to commentary, diatribes, punk rock riffs, some pontification and a whole lot of fun
BRENT CUTLER unpicks the complex social relations imagined in a novel about the builders of Stonehenge
SUSAN DARLINGTON laments a version of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes that is unable to solve its own problems
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THEY come from different countries — Iran, Afghanistan and Russia — and each has their own unique way of expressing themselves, but what they have in common is their militancy and commitment to female emancipation and social justice.
Their powerful images are at present on show at the Festival of LaGacilly/Baden — Europe’s biggest open-air photography festival.
Thirty-seven-year-old Iranian Maryam Firuzi did not set out to become a photographer. She has a degree in calligraphy and film studies, has studied art, literature and architecture. Today, she sees herself as an artist rather than “just” a photographer.
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