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Deeds Not Words: Mark Neville

  • Deeds Not Words: Mark Neville
     

    Mark Neville first came to prominence in 2005 with The Port Glasgow Book Project, a publication given away for free to every citizen in the Scottish town of the title. After projects in Helmand Province, Pittsburgh and London, The Photographers’ Gallery in London is to present Deeds Not Words, another book project that mixes social documentary with direct activism. Mark Neville speaks with the show’s curator, David Campany. David Campany: Like Port Glasgow, Deeds Not Words is a book with a unique origin and destination. How did it come about? Mark Neville: Since moving to Glasgow in 2001, I have taken many photographs [...]

  • Photojournalists on War: The Untold Stories from Iraq
     

    The photojournalist who covers a war is usually nameless and faceless. The average person looks at a photo, scans it right to left, left to right, up or down, centres their eyes on its main element and moves on. They rarely look in the lower right corner to see who shot the picture. If you see the name, it usually goes in and out of your mind. The photo implants itself in your psyche and that is enough, especially if it is an image of war. When a [...]

  • On Land: Darin Mickey
     
    During its short history in collusion with the photographer, the camera has more often than not set out to extract the aesthetic from its subject. Whether we admit it or not, whether we like it or not, our innate need to see beauty and then to capture it, to seize it before it becomes discontinued with time, has often clouded what was really before us at the time. On Land by Darin Mickey provides us with one of those tenuous opportunities to look unimpeded at the commonplace, the prosaic, the habitual. Each and everyone of us will be able to find beauty within his photographs, however tiny or substantial that [...]
  • New issue: June July
     
    In this issue we step back into the 90s in Nigel Shafran's Teenage Precinct Shoppers; look inside the dark corners of a man's mind with Todd Hido's Excerpts from Silver Meadows; dig up Amsterdam's financial district with WassinkLundgren in This Land is Your Land, This Land is my Land. David Campany talks with Mark Neville about the Corby 16 in Deeds Not Words and Mayumi Hosokura and Natasha Berger explore the meaning of Terra Firma in Crude Metaphors. Plus, we talk to MACK's Michael Mack and review of Seba Kurtis's KIF, Photojournalists on War: The Untold Stories from Iraq and Stephen Gill's Best before End, and much much more! Exclusive content for our App edition includes Arko Datto's The River and extra content from Stephen Gill and Seba Kurtis.Subscribe http://bit.ly/17fLRVM Single issue http://bit.ly/1akH6c9App http://bit.ly/V93ErR [...]
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