image as thought up by me and crafted on mike cupcake’s computer as i was schlepping about soho with a gentleman at the time.
if you need an explanation, dow chemicals are one of the official sponsors of the london 2012 olympic games. in 1999, they merged with the union carbide corporation – the pesticide manufacturing [...]
here’s a short video featuring war boutique’s work at black rat projects. he and peter kennard set up a series of installations exploring the relationships between citizen, state and commerce and geopolitics as a power structure.
the world has just uncovered a new, great street photographer.
her name is vivian maier. she lived and worked in chicago as a nanny. on her days off she took photographs that rival the poetry and beauty walker evans, helen levitt and saul leiter.
without further adieu, read my article in the british journal of photography.
and give [...]
I’ve been doing some writing for a bunch of art students.
Such as the copy you will read below.
The first draft I worked off had the phrase “challenging the position of the student as consumer and the pedagogic problems that come with this new condition”.
Call me a bit low-brow but I thought it best to simplify [...]
To mark the start of London Fashion Week 2010, activist group The Craftivist Collective has created homemade Mini Protest Banners aimed at exposing the ugly side of fashion. Using Mini Protest Banners, they hope to make people think about the side of the fashion that is often too easily dismissed by the industry in [...]
For Sale. One Space Hijackers Tank. Last seen 01 April 2009 – at London’s G20 demonstrations – steaming down Bishopsgate with Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries blaring from its soundsystem. 11 careful owners all registered on the DNA database. Many of us popped our arrest cherry that day.
Our mobile oppression [...]
Billboard vandal and drinker of tea Dr D plies his trade in a West London warehouse nestled in a landscape of railway lines, telephone poles and refrigerator graveyards.
When we meet, he is ankle deep in cut-out letters, spraymount and a scattering of UK election campaign propaganda. He’s recently finished a two-storey high paste up [...]
A new show called Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera opens at Tate Modern this week. It features images made surreptitiously or without the explicit permission of the subject. It is the history of spying with a lens in just over 250 photographs.
But there’s an elephant in the museum. As [...]
An exhibition intended to open discussion about surveillance and the gaze, Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera opens this week at London’s Tate Modern. The show explores themes of eroticism, celebrity, violence and security in the world around us. Over 250 works have been selected by Tate Modern in conjunction with [...]
