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encounters/annie ernaux
Notre vrai moi n’ est pas tout entier en nous. Jean-Jacques Rousseau These photographs were all shot at the exhibition “Exteriors: Annie Ernaux and Photography,” at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, February–May 2024, curated by Lou Stoppard. I love both Ernaux’ writing and the kind of street photography represented in the show, and…
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(post)colonial imaginaries: arabesques #2
These images are all from the exhibition “Présences arabes – Art moderne et décolonisation. Paris 1908-1988,” at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris from April to August 2024. La Musée d’Art Moderne propose de redécouvrir la diversité des modernités arabes au 20ème siècle et de renouveler le regard historique sur des scènes artistiques encore peu…
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(post)colonial imaginaries: arabesques #1
Images from exhibition “Zineb Sedira: Dreams Have No Titles” (Whitechapel Gallery, London, Feb–May 2024) Originally conceived for the French Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022, Dreams Have No Titles is an immersive installation comprising film, sculpture, photography and performance, that interweaves the artist’s biography with activist films produced across France, Algeria and Italy in the…
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Brick Lane, 2024 #2 (if I must die …)
Whenever we are in London (where I was born) we try to visit Brick Lane in Whitechapel, an area we have watched gentrifying over the years with mixed feelings. But so far, the ever-changing graffiti remains a reliable constant. All images shot 6-8 May, 2024
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Brick Lane, 2024 #1
Whenever we are in London (where I was born) we try to visit Brick Lane in Whitechapel, an area we have watched gentrifying over the years with mixed feelings. But so far, the ever-changing graffiti remains a reliable constant. All images shot 6-8 May, 2024
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window shopping #8 (London: tart cards)
I took these photos in London’s West End during 2001-2003. “Tart cards” advertising “all services” were then ubiquitous in the UK capital’s iconic red telephone boxes. Nowadays they seem scarcer. Placing tart cards in phone boxes was made illegal by the passing of the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001 … By 2002 most convicted carders were receiving…
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the sweet smell of lavender
In memory of Hind Rajab and Sidra Hassouna On April 3 the Israeli magazine +972 published an explosive article by Yuval Abraham based on interviews with six Israeli intelligence officers, all of whom have served in the army during the current war on Gaza. Its subject was the use of AI software named “Lavender” to generate targets…
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unexpected encounters: texts quoted
This is a list of sources for all texts quoted in my unexpected encounters posts AD Classics: Barcelona Pavilion / Mies van der Rohe. archdaily.com “Aesthetic.” grammar.com Apollinaire, Guillaume. “The Little Car.” In his Calligrammes: Poems of Peace and War 1913–1916. My translation. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. —— “Zone.” From Alcools: Poemes, 1898-1913. My translation.…
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unexpected encounters #16: envoi
Il faut confronter des idées vagues avec des images claires. Jean-Luc Godard, in La Chinoise commentary We were staying at the Hyatt Centric hotel in Kota Kinabalu in Sabah, Malaysia, overlooking the South China Sea. The sunsets there are renowned. As I stepped out from our twentieth-story air-conditioned room onto the balcony to capture the scene,…
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unexpected encounters #15: are, bure, boke
By modernity, I mean the ephemeral, the fleeting, the contingent, the half of art whose other half is the eternal and the immutable. Charles Baudelaire, “The Painter of Modern Life” Photography is painting with light! The blurs, the spots, those are errors! But the errors are part of it, they give it poetry and turn…
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