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Warning Shadows; Heimat, History and Memory – Heike Lowenstein’s ‘Heimat’.

Introduction to Heike Löwensteins ‘Heimat’ series.

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Darren Hall ‘There Are Some People Who Interest Us Immediately, At First Glance, Before A Word Is Spoken’

In Glasgow and thereabouts there is a longstanding greeting to friends and strangers alike, it is “hey big man!”.  This could be proffered to anyone over 5 feet high and would be cordial, carefree and, quietly, a disarmer of any malice aforethought in its address. This came to mind as I was thinking about Hall’s [...]

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Barry Woods/ Decline

Woods’ ‘Decline’ study operates in the social forensic terrain, image making which unpicks the everyday and results in a re–imagining of what is simply before us..

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Ed Watts/ Stalk New York

The act of photographing New York is at once a unique and personal activity but is also one that is inescapably part of a New York previously ‘imagined’.

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