Every family has a Grandma Pam
History remembers those who changed the world. Family photographs remember those who changed us.
The afterlife of a photograph
Every photograph acquires a history of its own. But the history of the image is not the same as the history of the person within it.
Photography has never had one universal way of seeing
Ming Smith's work reminds us that the gaze is not simply about what appears within the frame. It shapes what photographers recognise as meaningful before the camera is ever raised.
The Black Gaze and the myth of photography's universal vision
Photography has often spoken as though it possessed one universal way of seeing. The Black gaze begins with a different proposition: every way of seeing begins somewhere.
