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What the camera held for ten years

There is a photograph in Åsa Johannesson’s exhibition at Stills in Edinburgh that stops you. Not because it shouts. Because it waits. Each portrait conveys something specific — a glance, a tiny tattoo, creases in a shirt, an awkward poise, a turned neck. These are not symbols. They are specifics. The particularity of a person […]
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Fresh Air… Soho in Springtime

This morning I rode my bike through the rain to see new art. I was wearing an old anorak. As I warmed up in the entrance hall, a force field of sweet berries and marshmallow grew around me. It would have been one thing if I were a young girl, but as a full grown […]
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