Ensuite

A pillar cloud by day, a pillar of fire by night.

Emerging from the rubble....

"Life emerges from the rubble, and Barber’s keen eye invites you in to witness it. Documentation of people at work, people in conversation and people at social events are shot through with an inquisitive gaze. Barber is a social commentator and political enquirer, but first and foremost he remains an observer of the human condition."
EH Cocker writing in The Culture Vulture about my exhibition, The Big Society at Bank Street Arts, Sheffield.

Radio Gaga

If you're not entirely sick of the sound of my voice, here's a short audio interview I did with the Open College of the Arts, talking about the moral dimensions of photography and the aesthetic of picturing suffering. Click the link and scroll down, then press play.

The Big Society in Sheffield

My audio interview on BBC Sheffield with Andrew Conroy of Bank Street Arts. Exhibiting  until 13th Jan 2012. Listen to it here -

http://tinyurl.com/7jn8hj3

A very insightful blog  post from David Campbell about the manner in which news photographs are often used to reinforce positions that support the establishment...........

"news photographs the public ends up seeing are chosen less for their descriptive function or disruptive potential and more for their capacity to provide symbolic markers to familiar interpretations and conventional narratives"

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