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Contact sheets and negatives hold a quiet magic - a tactility, depth and atmosphere that digital photography can’t replicate. Our Studio Was The World features a rich collection of mark-ups, contact sheets and prints. Together, they open up the creative process: revealing careful thinking and editing, images selected and rejected, frames cropped and reconsidered - all shaping the final image that we see. Discover the photobook by Terry Dennett & Jo Spence, Our Studio Was The World. 🔗 Link in bio.

Franz Höllering, editor of the Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung, once urged photographers to “focus on the simple key facts.” This photographic essay does precisely that. Through restrained, carefully composed images, the book reveals an unexpected corner of the high-street fashion world: the silent, strategic presence of books as objects of value and display designed to enhance sales. Höllering’s prescient and concise text accompanies the photographs in an exhortation to contemporary photographers. “This book kept me pondering long after I put it down.” Reader feedback Discover 'This Is Your Task'. Link in bio 🔗

Page from STOP book by Peter Kennard To buy and for info link in bio Publisher: @museumsetc Image editor: @mikecrawford_lighthouse Designer: @mthomson "Peter Kennard's art became a political weapon from 1968 onwards. He became the John Heartfield of our generation and his pens and paintbrushes are still firing." Tariq Ali "STOPis a book that should be put in the hands of Pete Hegseth and his ilk. As Edwin Starr sang in 1970, “War – what is it good for? Absolutely nothing!” Angela Weight Former Director of Art, Imperial War Museum "Peter Kennard’s images communicate a vital message of resistance against violence and war. These previously unseen, early images in STOP mark the beginning of his iconic art of photomontage which spans cultural, political and geographic divides with an enduring urgency." Ben Harman, Senior Curator of Photography, National Galleries of Scotland

🗣️We connected through an old platform…Flickr, if you remember it. Journalist, photographer, and filmmaker Ahmad Al-Bazz (@ahmad.al.bazz ) talks about their work with the Network of Photographers for Palestine (NPP) in Scotland, recent publication in Edinburgh, and experience of studying in the UK. Hear more on the EMPIRE LINES podcast - find all the links in the first Instagram post 📸 instagram.com/reel/DXfQE6hjnO5/?igsh=MTd4eTFsNmh0dTV0OQ== The Erasure of Palestine by Ahmad Al-Bazz is published by Museums Etc. (@museumsetc ) and available in all good bookshops and online. Thread Memory: Embroidery from Palestine is at V&A Dundee (@vadundee ) until 26 April 2026. For more, you can read my article in The Markaz Review (@markazreview ): themarkaz.org/artist-interview-corinne-silva-on-israeli-settlement-gardens-in-palestine/ The Lost Paintings: A Prelude to Return continues at P21 Gallery in London (@p21_gallery ) until 29 May 2026. @lostpaintingsproject @themacbelfast @rull.khou @peaceloveart78 @haidimotola For more about studio photography in Palestine through the Ottoman Empire and British Mandate, hear curator Rachel Dedman’s EMPIRE LINES episode about an UNRWA Dress from Ramallah, Palestine (1930s)⁠: pod.link/1533637675/episode/92c34d07be80fe43a8e328705a7d80cb And read into the exhibition, Material Power: Palestinian Embroidery, at Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge and the Whitworth in Manchester, in gowithYamo: gowithyamo.com/blog/textiles-in-cambridge-palestinian-embroidery-at-kettles-yard @racheldedman @jameelartscentre @vamuseum @kettlesyard @whitworthart For more from the current programme of Ibraaz in London, hear conceptual photographer Hrair Sarkissian on his video installation, Sweet & Sour (2021-2022), at Wolverhampton Art Gallery: pod.link/1533637675/episode/N2YyZjNhYzMtYWQwZC00ZmU2LThmNjYtMWIyZWU5OWJhZDU3 @hrair_sarkissian @wolvesartandculture @ibraazlondon #nablus #haifa #jaffa @studionicolajeffs

Pages from STOP book by Peter Kennard To buy and for info link in bio Publisher: @museumsetc Image editor: @mikecrawford_lighthouse Designer: @mthomson "Peter Kennard's art became a political weapon from 1968 onwards. He became the John Heartfield of our generation and his pens and paintbrushes are still firing." Tariq Ali "STOPis a book that should be put in the hands of Pete Hegseth and his ilk. As Edwin Starr sang in 1970, “War – what is it good for? Absolutely nothing!” Angela Weight Former Director of Art, Imperial War Museum "Peter Kennard’s images communicate a vital message of resistance against violence and war. These previously unseen, early images in STOP mark the beginning of his iconic art of photomontage which spans cultural, political and geographic divides with an enduring urgency." Ben Harman, Senior Curator of Photography, National Galleries of Scotland

'A critical - and uniquely frank - conversation about left-wing politics, class, the moving-image and cinema.' Valentine Umansky, Tate Modern Curator @valentine.umansky 'If Capitalism Is Short, My Shots are Long' is an exclusive interview with award-winning filmmaker Declan Clarke. Discussing issues of fundamental concern to almost any artist: instinct, research, colour, form, collaboration, career, funding, creativity, technology and politics. The interview is illustrated by images of Clarke at work researching and shooting his films. Link in bio.

A stark visual study of power, profit, and the unseen consequences of corporate ambition. 'Distress for Control' unfolds against the backdrop of what has been called “the greatest private equity deal of all time” — a transaction that enriched three billionaires, cost 2,500 people their livelihoods, and revealed a disturbing intersection of sexual abuse and high art. Through its striking images, the book traces the hidden mechanisms that shape such events: the forces that engineer collapse, the motivations concealed behind financial strategy, and the human cost that rarely enters the frame. Read more and order your copy via link in bio 🔗

In the studio turning through a few pages from my new book STOP. Link in bio to buy it and read info. Searing stark images of war and repression, by one of the world's great masters of political art. STOP reminds us why it is so important, and necessary, to defend peace and human rights. Peter Tatchell, human rights campaigner Ideally these words would be as powerful as Peter Kennard's images in STOP and get you to buy his book. OR: Ideally this book would slap you in the face and wake you up. Laura Prouvost ,artist

An essential collection of quotations for progressive photographers. In these concise texts, perceptive thinkers from the fields of philosophy, criticism, art and photography examine the ways in which Marxist theory can be applied to creative work, with a focus on photography. "Texts and insights that are deeply relevant today." Reader feedback. 👉 Discover 'No Art Above Politics' link in bio🔗

*EMPIRE LINES - NEW EPISODE* Journalist, photographer, and filmmaker Ahmad Al-Bazz (@ahmad.al.bazz ) captures the depopulation and destruction of Palestinian villages and towns, and the continuation of colonial histories into the present, through their photography book, The Erasure of Palestine (2026). listen+follow🔊 pod.link/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy8yZWE0ZDBkNC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw/episode/NDlkZjI5MDctNmYyYi00NTgyLWIwY2EtYjU4YTkwNGQ2YWIy The Erasure of Palestine by Ahmad Al-Bazz is published by Museums Etc. (@museumsetc ) and available in all good bookshops and online. Thread Memory: Embroidery from Palestine is at V&A Dundee (@vadundee ) until 26 April 2026. For more, you can read my article in The Markaz Review (@markazreview ): themarkaz.org/artist-interview-corinne-silva-on-israeli-settlement-gardens-in-palestine/ The Lost Paintings: A Prelude to Return continues at P21 Gallery in London (@p21_gallery ) until 29 May 2026. @lostpaintingsproject @themacbelfast @rull.khou @peaceloveart78 @haidimotola For more about studio photography in Palestine through the Ottoman Empire and British Mandate, hear curator Rachel Dedman’s EMPIRE LINES episode about an UNRWA Dress from Ramallah, Palestine (1930s)⁠: pod.link/1533637675/episode/92c34d07be80fe43a8e328705a7d80cb And read into the exhibition, Material Power: Palestinian Embroidery, at Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge and the Whitworth in Manchester, in gowithYamo: gowithyamo.com/blog/textiles-in-cambridge-palestinian-embroidery-at-kettles-yard @racheldedman @jameelartscentre @vamuseum @kettlesyard @whitworthart For more from the current programme of Ibraaz in London, hear conceptual photographer Hrair Sarkissian on his video installation, Sweet & Sour (2021-2022), at Wolverhampton Art Gallery: pod.link/1533637675/episode/N2YyZjNhYzMtYWQwZC00ZmU2LThmNjYtMWIyZWU5OWJhZDU3 @hrair_sarkissian @wolvesartandculture @ibraazlondon #nablus #haifa #jaffa @studionicolajeffs