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I didn’t expect to end up in a darkened drawer in LA on a botanic detective mission, but looking at art takes you to some strange places. I’d written a book about photography, and to illustrate a section on impermanence and memory, I wanted to use an image of something from the Getty collection. The item is a piece of paper. Specifically, a photogenic drawing negative, made by W.H.F. Talbot in around 1835, catalogue number 85.XM.150.14.

This is about the heft of a shoebox filled with photographs printed on paper. The physicality of images. It is also about the stillness of the house of the recently dead. The empty chair with the cushions crushed. The crossword half done, the slippers neatly parked, the TV remote still to hand. We were the executors, with the sad business of emptying the house.

Jackie is running across a big field in Central Park, heading for a forest. She is no longer a Kennedy, and probably happy her life is no longer regulated by presidential guards and the strictures of the White House. They wouldn't allow her to run as freely as she is doing here, now, in the uncut grass, free from tight Chanel suits and long Givenchy dresses. Jeans and flats makes it easier to run away from the paparazzi photographer Ron Galella’s stalking lens.

source Each year as part of Graduate Photography Online we ask a number of professionals from the world of photography to review all the photographic work submitted and choose their favourites. We hope this makes an interesting introduction to the project as a whole. Fotohof Team Birgit Sattlecker, Gabi Wagner & Herman Seidl fotohof.at Fotohof Salzburg, an Austrian Institution for contemporary fine art photography, represents and supports national and international author photography.

source Each year as part of Graduate Photography Online we ask a number of professionals from the world of photography to review all the photographic work submitted and choose their favourites. We hope this makes an interesting introduction to the project as a whole.

source Each year as part of Graduate Photography Online we ask a number of professionals from the world of photography to review all the MA/MFA work submitted and choose their favourites. We hope this makes an interesting introduction to the project as a whole. Katy Barron Festival Director, Photo Oxford photooxford.org It has been fascinating to view the huge range of submissions from this year’s MA photography graduates and a real pleasure for me as I am always looking for new work.

source Each year as part of Graduate Photography Online we ask a number of professionals from the world of photography to review all the MA/MFA work submitted and choose their favourites. We hope this makes an interesting introduction to the project as a whole. Hana Kaluznick Assistant Curator, Photography, V&A vam.ac.uk How is it possible to choose only six artists from such an extensive list of excellent projects?

Issue 116 — Autumn  2024 View Contents ▸ The elements – Earth, Air, Water, and Fire – as described by Empedocles 2,500 years ago, are still relevant categories for thinking about our ecosystem and more particularly the way we are damaging it. As Conohar Scott writes, talking specifically about Fire, our assumption that we could harness combustion for our own ends without any consequences now looks hubristic, in a way that Empedocles would have recognised.

Issue 33 Winter 2002 View Contents ▸ All the pictures are taken on Port Meadow Oxford, a 400-acre area of common land in the centre of Oxford. It's arguably one of the largest common spaces inside the ring road of any city in the UK. It has been continually grazed for over 2000 years. Originally given to the Freemen of oxford by King Alfred in 900 AD as a gift for fighting the Danes, it remains steeped with history.

Issue 54 Spring 2008 View Contents ▸ When considering practices that use photographs made by other people, it is not enough to only consider what is in the image. It must be also asked, what does the artist do with the photograph?