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Enrique Metinides

site B/Phoenix (in the distance)

There used to be a steep earth embankment along one side of site B (a large former castings factory) behind a wire mesh security fence, both gone now. The embankment had a huge number and variety of beautiful mature trees and various kinds of bushes. I used to take cover amongst them at the top and take several minutes from that vantage point to carefully study the site below. It wasn't easy to see if there were workers around and I never fancied bumping into anyone. (Once I only noticed them afterwards, in a photograph, in the distance.)  If the coast seemed clear I'd nervously scramble down the other side and wander around to take pictures for three or four hours each time (it's a big site), initially of the demolition and clearance and then the subsequent housing estate construction. The building company named the site, ' Phoenix '. I don't go to site B/ Phoenix much anymore but I was passing nearby today and took a few photos from outside. I've a poo...

Richard Ansett: Andrew Paul Gilligan, 2010

Ansett: "I had arranged to meet Gilligan outside an East London Mosque but he didn't show. I called him a few times and eventually he picked up and explained that he had the flu and wouldn't be able to make it. The client needed something to go to press with the next day so I asked him if I could pop over to his house and grab a quick headshot. When I arrived I was greeted with this chaotic mess of sugary drinks bottles, sweet wrappers, books and newspapers strewn over his lounge. This would never have been exposed if the shoot had been arranged with any notice. In the corner of the frame is a book titled 'The Country Formerly known as Great Britain' by Ian Jack. I was struck by how important he had been in the terrible story of Dr David Kelly and the final downfall of the then Labour government." npg website

Walton & Woodhouse: They shall beat their swords into plougshears, 2017

Sam Walton, a Quaker, and Rev Dan Woodhouse, a Methodist minister, arrested for trying to prevent war crimes. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-38787630  

Lies My Teacher Told Me: James W Loewen

"Students who have taken mathematics courses are more proficient at math than other students. The same is true in English, foreign language studies, and almost every other subject. Only in history is stupidity the result of more, not less, schooling. "These students cannot use the past to illuminate the present and have no inkling of causation in history so they cannot think coherently about social life." p. 310 Lies My Teacher Told Me About Columbus by James W Loewen

Francis Bacon: Study from the Human Body and Portrait, 1988

Night-time

Night-time, (summer 2016)

Jeff Whetstone: Crossing the Delaware

Julie Saul gallery & Collectordaily review

Anne Doran: Analogs

Invisible Exports gallery & collectordaily review