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Call and Response with a 19th Century Archive

...phy, and her own experience of life, work and photography, in 21st Century Britain. The project, which consists of 41 photographic works, combines images Rickett made at locations associated with Dillwyn Llewelyn’s life, studio based works, and other found images. In the text, historically accurate anecdote is combined with a strong sense of Dillwyn Llewelyn’s own voice. “Rickett develops her interest in archival practices and how the heritage ind...

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Paul Trevor Is In Your Face

...ortant but overlooked work by British photographers. Primarily shot during Britain’s “Thatcher years,” a time of polarized debate on market values vs. community values, “In Your Face” contrasts the people in London’s money market, The City, with those in the nearby street market of Brick Lane. “The idea was to say something about the two places without having to show what people did. The story would be in people’s faces. Needing a close-up approac...

A Gambler’s Look at Gamblers

...ng into my adult life.” The Gamblers by Martin Amis Published by RRB PhotoBooks April 30, 2018 Related Articles Simon Roberts’ Landscape Photos Illuminate Post-Brexit Britain Traveling Town to Town with Niall McDiarmid City Guide: London (for PDN subscribers; login required)...

Simon Roberts’ Landscape Photos Illuminate Post-Brexit Britain

...“Goodman Park Polling Station, Slough,” from Simon Roberts’ new book about Britain, “Merrie Albion.” © Simon Roberts “Prime Minister Theresa May, Downing Street, London,” from Simon Roberts’ new book about Britain, “Merrie Albion.” © Simon Roberts Merrie Albion: Landscape Studies of a Small Island by Simon Roberts. Published by Dewi Lewis Publishing. Simon Roberts’ new book uses landscape photographs to consider the past decade of British politica...

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Traveling Town to Town with Niall McDiarmid

...portraits made in over 200 towns in the UK. Forming a poignant portrait of Britain, McDiarmid’s colorful images were taken from Dingwall in the Scottish Highlands to the historic town of Bodmin in Cornwall, England. Created over the course of seven years, McDiarmid, who is Scottish, traveled through multiple town centers with the same chains of coffee shops and retailers, but found that each town expressed an individuality due to its residents. “A...

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The Beasts of the Mara, Up Close

...l Reserve, Kenya, 2012. © Anup Shah In his new book The Mara, published by Britain’s Natural History Museum, Anup Shah describes growing up in Kenya, where, he writes, “wildlife was just outside the door in abundance.” Falling in love with the open land and its creatures produced an emotional pull in him: “driving on endless plains harboring dangerous lions invoked a giddy sense of freedom”; encountering an unexpected herd of elephants made “you f...

Giles Revell’s Underwater “War Poppies”

...a smoke-wreathed, blood-red poppy—the symbol of remembrance for the war in Britain—the stamp inspired a series, “War Poppies,” which was shown this summer at Oculus Gallery in Los Angeles. In the images, Revell suspends real flowers in watery fields of color that resemble billowing clouds or explosions. Using dye-injecting techniques he developed in earlier series, such as his “Flora Pigmented Still Lifes,” Revell submerges the flowers in tanks of...

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Picturing Invictus

...gby and Jason Ellis (USAF), Wheelchair Basketball. © Craig Orsini In 2014, Britain’s Prince Harry founded the Invictus Games in London as a way for wounded and ill service members and veterans to compete in sports ranging from archery to wheelchair basketball, and this year, the U.S. hosted the games in Orlando last month. Boston photographer and director Craig Orsini photographed many of the participants as part of an assignment from Dallas agenc...

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