Simon Bowcock

Many clever and interesting things on many subjects.

Farewell to Ara Güler, the “eye of Istanbul”.

Can somnolent Tokyo salarymen shock us into thinking more critically about our own role in the world?

“The camera never lies.”

- Buck’s Fizz, My Camera Never Lies, 1982.

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​As we all know, Buck’s Fizz were telling a big fat lie.

An edgy study of attraction and obsession, studded with strong sexual metaphors

“It was the greatest group of photographers ever assembled in America”

The reductive, the creative, and what we've already been told.

In itself, even the most detailed photograph carries minimal meaning...

How do you put a price on a photograph as a piece of art?

The largely forgotten 85-year-old Iraqi photographer Latif Al Ani is increasingly being remembered. Justly so.

No snapshots these. This is is the long look.

“...your eyes are on stalks.”

Unlike empires but very much like statues, powerful ideas don't die.

A sexual revolution was happening – but it seemed to be taking place somewhere else.

Is photography the new poetry?