Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
My camera is my weapon
Three internationally renowned female photographers, whose work combines visual innovation, aesthetic brilliance and militancy, talk to JOHN GREEN
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ALISTAR FINDLAY is mesmerised by this multiple ‘Visions of Scotland’ assault on the audience’s eyes and senses
The Star's critics ANGUS REID, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA reviews I Am Love, The Penguin Lessons, Freaky Tales, The Thicket
MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about the direction of a play centered on a DVLA re-training session for three British-Pakistani motorists
New releases from Steve Knightley, Jupiter & Okwess, Jason Palmer, Lisa Knapp and Gerry Driver, Kin'Gongolo Kiniata, Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey, Dan Sealey, Simin Tande, PAZ
JOHN GREEN relishes photography that unfolds a longstanding and poetic relationship with Leeds
A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
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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