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30 years of OutRage!: the grassroots group that changed LGBTQ life in…
When an incredibly driven group of LGBTQ activists formed OutRage! in May 1990, systemic homophobia still infected everyday life in the UK. Same-sex couples didn’t have the right to marry or adopt, it wasn’t illegal to discriminate against LGBTQ people in the workplace, and the Sexual Offences Act of 1967 prohibited gay men from having sex until they turned 21. The Section 28 act, enacted two years prior, prohibited local authorities from “intentionally promoting homosexuality” in schools.
Embracing Photography’s Digital Future
The most interesting careers in photography are often those that jump between and through a variety of different roles and perspectives, revealing a primal curiosity in the medium as a whole rather than a particular loyalty to one specific genre. For Stephen Mayes, this endless fascination with image-making is demonstrated through his expansive constellation of experiences, from being a photojournalist himself to a stint in stock imagery.
Another Way of Telling: Teju Cole’s Blind Spot - Photographs and texts by Teju ColeReview by Lev Feigin | LensCulture
“In every act of looking there is an expectation of meaning.” —John Berger The first photograph in Teju Cole’s new book, Blind Spot, depicts neighboring suburban driveways in springtime. A chain link fence and a row of bushes with budding leaves mark property lines. A tree shadow crosses the driveway in the foreground. Beyond the hedge, masked by fresh foliage, is a parked RV. Further still is a two-story house with a dark olive green cornice.
Beyond the Decisive Moment: 'The Truth Isn’t Told in a Single Photo'
The phantom limb is a phenomenon well-known in the medical world and apparently to about 80% of the people who suffer amputations. In this most radical of surgeries the absence of a limb is not only a matter of scientific observation but is absolutely known by the patient and is clearly visible to the entire population.
The Next Revolution in Photography Is Coming
It’s time to stop talking about photography. It’s not that photography is dead as many have claimed, but it’s gone. Just as there’s a time to stop talking about girls and boys and to talk instead about women and men so it is with photography; something has changed so radically that we need to talk about it differently, think of it differently and use it differently.
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