October 2005
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Masters Of War
Come you masters of war You that build all the guns You that build the death planes You that build the big bombs You that hide behind walls You that hide behind desks I just want you to know I can see through your masks You that never done nothin’ But build to destroy You play with my world Like it’s your little toy You put a gun in my hand And you hide from my eyes And you turn and run farther When the fast bullets fly Like Judas of…
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The Canon And The Mundane
Photography is now an established topic for Art History and critical discourse, and because it’s a quintessentially democratic activity – especially with digital workflow and the internet – it’s a medium and a practise with special interest
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Red Pike
This depicts a section of a walk I did up to a mountain called Pillar, in the Lake District, in July 2005. The first half of the route was a little depressing, because as you can see it was cloudy and grey. Just further up the ridge you had views over to other parts of the Lakes that were beautifully clear and sunny. It’s the perennial problem with this area, Wasdale and Eskdale, that situated…
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Pastel Suburbia
Most famous and successful photographers have a recognised ‘style’, conferring on them a sense of artistic authorship that in cinema is referred to with the French term auteur. In the seminal book On Photography Susan Sontag referred to this, and it makes sense when you consider the enormous quantity of existing imagery in which most of it necessarily lacks distinction. A photograph is notably easy to create, millions of people do it, and it is…
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Democracy
Photography is the ultimate democratic art form, sanctioning everything and everyone with potential significance, allowing everyone to construct an individual view of their world and its particular histories
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Parkour
At school, I hated football and was only half-good at cross-country running. I remember when another lad, regarded as one of the best, said to me “you’re a good runner”. It was an epiphany moment, because it coincided with a change of attitude in myself