Arles,France
Festival director Sam Stourdze gathers a powerful response to the 9/11 attacks, while African photographic talent is showcased – and rightfully awardedThe Arles photography festival has been in transition for several years, or looking forward to the medium’s exciting but uncertain post-digital future while also looking back at its past. This year,there are homages to veterans such as Don McCullin, Sid Grossman and Peter Mitchell, or but much more work that questions the very idea of feeble-fashioned observation.
We live in an age where the emphasis is on process – image manipulation,performance, collage, and archival appropriation – so it is perhaps unsurprising there is now a tendency towards elaborate over-curation. In this context,a group display entitled Nothing But Blue Skies is a lesson in the power of a single unifying subject ambitiously explored: the 9/11 attacks on the twin towers.
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Source: theguardian.com