UTTER NONSENSE

In this issue of Utter Journal there’s no conclusion or attempt to identify with the existential elements of war. Here is no more than a...

During the First World War, cultural historian Stephane Audoin-Rouzeau explained: “Children were fully integrated into the war. In all...

In the series Trojan Man/Trojan Woman I tried to tackle the issue of representation in war and conflict. There exists a prevalence where...

Just about finished the text for Utter Journal 3, War. As with the selection of images it's more about taking out than putting in, and...

The visibility of war is dependent from where it is being viewed. As an artist with no direct experiential knowledge of war, it has...

Working towards the exhibition opening on the 28th November - 7th December, plus the launch of Utter Journal 3. The underlying theme of...

There is a fascinating inevitability to war. In the fifteen years of looking I have come full circle. I can see the path I've taken but...

It's always exciting to come across an artist completely unknown to oneself. Earlier in the year I experienced the paintings of Joaquin...

Claude Cahun was way ahead of her time, a transgender Jewish lesbian and anti-fascist artist. In the 1920s and ‘30s, Cahun created a...

I recently bought, When I Was a Boy, by Katrien De Blauwer and published in 2018 by Libraryman. I first came across De Blauwer's collages...

There's the iconic photograph Tony Ray-Jones took of a smartly dressed couple having dinner at Gyndebourne with a herd of cows in the...

RRB Photobooks have just published a beautiful set of photographs taken by Marketa Luskacova, By the Sea, Photographs from the North...

Carnival Strippers is unique, the first body of work by Susan Meiselas shot over three summers between 1973-75 and originally published...

Andy Sloane's Nine Muses are back from Iken, Bruer Tidman has a new suite of prints & drawings and Mark cator launches a rescripted...

A figure stood on Zushi Beach in Kanagawa Prefecture one night in 1973, silhouetted against a fire as he fed piles of prints and...

“I came from the outside, the rules of photography didn't interest me. There were things you could do with a camera that you couldn't do...

Paul Strand was born in New York City on October 16, 1890. His father gave him his first camera when he was twelve. In 1907, he enrolled...

László Moholy-Nagy was born in Hungary in 1895 and he initially studied law before serving in the army during World War I. He was...

There is Childhood, but not as the body of work I had intended. Utter Journal 002 will come out in September, followed by Utter Journal...

Carrying on from last week, it transpired that the child's naked body and even worse the child's penis was somehow distrurbing, perverted...

There Is No Childhood came about because there was Childhood. This is not the body of work I intended. There Is No Childhood deals with...

Bruer Tidman, Andy Sloan and Mark Cator are exhibiting works at the Hendee House Studios from Wednesday 3rd July to Wednesday 10th July....

Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894–1986) created an impressive body of photographs throughout his lifetime; however, he took many of his most...

American photographer Sally Mann is best-known for her famed body of work, Immediate Family, which documents her three children, Jessie,...