Melanie Manchot

The series came about through thoughts on where and how we define our borders, in other words, where do I finish and the rest of the world begin…

SPOTLIGHT: Simon Roberts

Today Simon Roberts spoke at University College Falmouth Photography Symposium 2009.  It was really good.  He talked about his work from the early days as a press/editorial photographer; The Children of the Apocalypse was an article shown in the Independent (Nov 2000) about the Aids epidemic in Africa.  How do …

EXHIBITION: AOP Student Awards

© Lucy Bailey 2008 Time to start thinking about my submission for the 2009 AOP Student Awards.  Last year I was shortlisted with this image.  It was shown in the AOP gallery for a week as part of the Awards exhibition.

SPOTLIGHT: Nina Mangalanayagam

“Snötäckt: under a blanket of snow is a photography project about my father and his current life situation. Originally from Sri Lanka, he came to Sweden thirty years ago, and has lived there ever since. Recently, certain events occurred that made it impossible for him to stay at his home, and he …

BOOK: ‘The Emigrants’ – WG Sebald

Just finished reading this book.  It was quite slow going but had some beautiful description in it. “Till we noticed a motionless figure lying in the shade cast on the lawn by a lofty cedar in the southwest corner of the garden.  It was an old man, his head propped …