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For the Record: Photography & the Art of the Album Cover
A remixed radio edit.
How to Win at Photography
Signposting socio-cultural shifts.
Review: Northern England by Michael Kenna
Filed away and forgotten, these images may never have seen the light of day.
Keith Piper: Jet Black Futures
Unquestionable, inarguable and inescapable.
Manchester is Hell
WG Sebald wasn't just talking about Cottonopolis.
Prix Pictet 2021-2
Can photography really be an agent for change?
She Appeared to Vanish
Mystery and erasure.
Outside the Algorithm
Where did we come from, where are we now, and where are we going?
See/Saw by Geoff Dyer - A Review
Concentrated complexity, insightful oxymorons and a skewering.
Ara Güler obituary
Farewell to Ara Güler, the “eye of Istanbul”.
Festivals, Fairs and Covid-19
Soldiering on.
(Image: 'Big Bang' by Brian Griffin, courtesy of Format Festival)
Ambiguity Revisited: Communicating with Pictures / Stuart Franklin
Ambiguity’s positive contribution to art.
Bitcoin On-Chain Analysis March 22
Bitcoin on-chain analysis has limited short-term value. But it can help us monitor longer-term fundamentals.
Seedscapes
Plants can survive without humans, but we can't survive without plants.
Masculinities
Times have changed.