Sunday, September 30, 2018
South Korea honors Ute Tribe veterans for service during Korean War
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Fresh Air Weekend: Jon Batiste; Robbie Fulks And Linda Gail Lewis
Batiste, the band leader for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, demonstrates his "everything in the pot" style of piano. Fulks and Lewis share songs from their new album, Wild! Wild! Wild!
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Is your dog anxious or depressed? Science says it just might be
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Nafta: US and Canada 'reach new trade deal'
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Grant will make math a family affair at Midvalley Elementary School
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Downed power lines force closure of I-15 in Sandy
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What Utah’s 3.1 percent unemployment rate really means
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3 dead inside car found crashed in Herriman ravine, police say
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Tory conference: Dominic Raab sets out 'limits' for Brexit compromise
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The college with a wine production degree
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Ford to refund 'engine fail' EcoBoost customers
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'Think creatively to punch above your weight'
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The 26-year-old with a £100m sportswear brand
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Waiters to be paid all tips under new law, Theresa May says
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1 dead, 4 injured after car rolls in Tooele County
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'Forced to flee': Salt Lake residents get glimpse of life at refugee camp
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The rise of retro filmmaking and resurgence of Super 8
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Elon Musk reaches deal over tweets about taking Tesla private
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Social media guidelines for young people to be drawn up
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Utah consumer attitudes at historic high
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Fire updates: Murdock Fire near Kamas closes highway after making 'run to the north'
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1 in critical condition, 7 injured during West Valley drunk driving crash
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Music For Healing: A Meditative Alt.Latino Playlist
An emotionally exhausting week calls for music that helps you to unwind and just breathe.
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Otis Rush, Chicago Blues Legend, Dies At 84
Rush's unique style of soloing and powerful tenor voice helped shape the Chicago blues sound and deeply influenced famed guitarists like Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy, Jimmy Page and Stevie Ray Vaughn.
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Business rates could be changed, minister says
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New tax on foreign home buyers to help rough sleepers, PM says
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Fire updates: Murdock Fire near Kamas closes highway after making 'run to the north'
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Missing deer hunter found in 'great shape' by fellow hunter
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Police arrest 21-year-old after shooting in Ogden leaves 1 injured
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'A massage through the internet': Utah YouTuber specializes in soft sounds
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Molly Ringwald On '80s Movies And Sexual Assault
Molly Ringwald, 1980s movie darling, discusses the impact of the era's pop culture concerning Brett Kavanaugh's alleged assault of Christine Blasey Ford with NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro.
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Life, Love and Hockey (Oooh, And Pie) In 'Check, Please!'
Ngozi Ukazu's charming, cheerful webcomic about a gay college hockey player has been collected in book form. Check, Please! stays squarely on the bright side of life, a brave choice in its own way.
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Saturday, September 29, 2018
Provo antique shopkeeper nabs thieves who stole 1880’s doll
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Sheriff’s office search for missing deer hunter
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Woman dies, 7 hospitalized after minivan rolls near Cedar City
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Woman dies in Logan car crash
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Hope Conference unites homicide cold case detectives with victim familes
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Has 'dieting' become a dirty word?
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Elon Musk reaches deal over tweets about taking Tesla private
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Woman who lost son to suicide hosts first-ever Herriman Family Wellness Fair
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GOP district attorney candidate to return some of his parents' contributions after topping limits
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Pilot walks away with minor injuries after plane lands upside down in Utah Lake, officials say
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Lost Dog, Fire Hole areas of Flaming Gorge Reservoir on notice after algae bloom found, officials say
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Touched by an activist: Future Salt Lake community center vies for preservation grant
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Safe Kids educates families on car seat dos and don'ts
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Police locate Provo girl who had been missing since Wednesday
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Brexit: UK 'would forever regret' losing carmakers - minister
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Conservative Party conference app reveals MP's numbers
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2 arrested in connection with fatal Thursday shooting in Layton
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Police search for man missing on Mount Timpanogos since Sept. 16
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Not My Job: Actor Jon Hamm Gets Quizzed On Spam
The Mad Men star will answer three questions about the canned meat product with a verrrry long shelf life.
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Sexual Assault And Forgiveness
NPR's Scott Simon asks Atlantic contributor Caitlin Flanagan about this week's Supreme Court testimony and about the possibility of atonement and forgiveness for sexual assault perpetrators.
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A Top Impressionist, Melissa Villaseñor Is Finding Her Own Voice On 'SNL'
She's known for celebrity imitations: Hillary Clinton and Owen Wilson, Jennifer Lopez and Bjork, and so on. Now, as she joins Saturday Night Live's full cast, she's learning what else she can do.
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Buffy Sainte-Marie's Authorized Biography Serves As A 'Map Of Hope'
The award-winning native Canadian singer-songwriter and social activist looks back on a life of music, milestones and empowerment.
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Punks, Up Against The Wall
The new book Burning Down the Haus fastidiously traces the self-discovery of punks in the socialist dictatorship of East Germany, and the violence and repression they endured on the way to freedom.
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Friday, September 28, 2018
With storm approaching, residents warned about possible burn scar debris flows
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Toyota says no-deal Brexit would stall production at Burnaston
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Workshop aims to develop better ways to utilize stormwater
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More sexual assault survivors coming forward for help
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Upper Zion Narrows no longer off-limits, park officials say
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Utah catering company sues Eccles Theater owner for $1.5 million
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Utah State opens first on-campus bean-to-chocolate factory
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High street crisis: Charting how we spend our money
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Body found on I-215 West near SLC airport, officials say
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Bula! Fiji fights US bar's trademark on a national greeting
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Two charged in fatal Rancheritos shooting
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1 eastbound lane of I-80 east of Wendover due to crash
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Man accused of ramming police car charged
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Salt Lake protesters vent frustrations over Kavanaugh vote
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UHP identifies woman killed in crash on SR-36
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Where to eat discounted lunch and dinner during Salt Lake's Dine O'Round
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Man critically injured in Ogden motorcycle crash
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Facebook security breach: Up to 50m accounts attacked
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Gunman in 1999 Ogden murder granted parole
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Police: Man shot in Layton asked to be driven to Idaho hospital, where he died
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Facebook security breach: Up to 50m accounts attacked
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Using corn as bait now allowed at all Utah waters; other fishing changes announced for 2019-20
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A Single Act Of Violence Inspires Outrage And Anger In 'Monsters And Men'
Reinaldo Marcus Green's haunting new film tells the story of three Brooklyn men whose lives are impacted by the shooting of an unarmed black man by a white police officer in their neighborhood.
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Robert Redford: The 'Fresh Air' Interview
Redford has announced that he's retiring from acting, and that his role in the new film The Old Man and the Gun, will be his last. In 2013, he said it was "sort of weird" being known for his looks.
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Robert Redford: The 'Fresh Air' Interview
Redford has announced that he's retiring from acting, and that his role in the new film The Old Man and the Gun, will be his last. In 2013, he said it was "sort of weird" being known for his looks.
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Fire updates: Weather forecast unfavorable for crews battling 4 fires in northern Utah
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'Rafiki': The Lesbian Love Story That Kenya Banned And Then Unbanned
In the hopes of becoming an Oscar contender, the Kenyan film board allowed the movie to play in Nairobi for a week. Director Wanuri Kahiu sees it as the beginning of a fight for freedom of expression.
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Hatch says time to end 'new smears' against Kavanaugh and vote on nomination to Supreme Court
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Ex-Salt Lake mayor says he's dropping '02 Olympics suit
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Facebook slated over phone ad push
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Drew Philp: How Can 'Radical Neighborliness' Help Struggling Communities?
In 2009, Drew Philp bought an abandoned house in Detroit and worked with neighbors to fix it up. He discovered the power of 'radical neighborliness' to rebuild his struggling neighborhood.
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Richard Berry: How Can Cities Create Opportunities For The Homeless?
As Albuquerque's mayor, Richard Berry tried a new approach to addressing panhandling: offering work and connecting homeless with city services. He says it's a more humane option more cities can try.
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Vishaan Chakrabarti: How Can We Design More Welcoming Cities?
Architect Vishaan Chakrabarti says many modern cities feel cold, austere, and anonymous. He advocates for designing more vibrant and inclusive cities that are reminiscent of the scale of older cities.
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OluTimehin Adegbeye: How Can Cities Make Space For Their Most Vulnerable Residents?
OluTimehin Adegbeye says that in the world's megacities, the most vulnerable get left behind — including in her city, Lagos. But it's these people, she says, that most deserve space in modern cities.
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Liz Ogbu: Can We Gentrify Neighborhoods While Allowing Longtime Residents To Stay?
Architect Liz Ogbu has seen the pain gentrification creates for displaced communities. She wonders how we can create ways for longtime residents to stay and reap the benefits of gentrification.
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Cosworth in Northampton marks 60 years of powering champions
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Woman shot dead in SLC drive-by shooting, police say
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Google to be sued by Belgium for not blurring military sites
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Powerleague five-a-side football firm to close 13 sites
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Putting On Kathy Acker's Voice In Perfect, Agonizing 'Crudo'
Olivia Laing's first novel is semi-autobiographical, but written in the voice of the late literary provocateur Kathy Acker. There's no reason for the choice — but the result is breathlessly gripping.
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Marshall Kilburn II Bluetooth speaker review: Great sound and nostalgic design
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Man accused of threatening 3D gun mass school shooting pleads guilty to infraction
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Never had it so good: Film printing in the digital age
Brighton-based camera manufacturer Intrepid Camera Co. has teamed up with British Journal of Photography to launch the Intrepid Enlarger. The Kickstarter campaign for the new Intrepid Enlarger will go live for 30 days beginning 04 October at the opening of the Intrepid Film Photography Awards pop-up exhibition.
This editorial explores the changing attitudes towards analogue camera equipment and reveals why Maxim Grew, founder of Intrepid, felt now was the right time to release the enlarger.
In Greek mythology, the word nostos refers to the homecoming of an epic war hero: think of Homer journeying back from Troy by sea or Odysseus’ return to Ithaca. In 1688, Swiss medical student Johannes Hofer combined nostos with algos, the Greek word for pain, to describe symptoms such as fainting or pining, which were prevalent in Swiss mercenaries returning from battle. In doing so, the word nostalgia was born.
Fast forward half a millennium and nostalgia is no longer used to delineate a medical disease, but rather to describe a sentimental longing or yearning for something past. A quick Google of the word today brings up a plethora of polemics along the lines of “why are millennials the most nostalgic ever?” and “why can’t Generation Z stop living in the past?” While these may seem like clickbait titles, we cannot ignore the fact that there is a renewed love for all things retro, particularly amongst the youth of today. Gadgets that do not connect to wifi – such as film cameras, brick phones, classic iPods and vinyl records – are back by popular demand. In today’s fast-paced, digital world, the desire for something physical is paramount.
Introduced to photography via his grandfather’s 35mm – an Olympus OM1 Maxim Grew immediately fell in love with shooting film, admiring how it made him a more thoughtful photographer. “I started off taking pictures of friends – mostly portraits on holidays. From there I became increasingly interested in landscape photography and that is also when I got into large format,” he says.
This, combined with a natural knack for “making things” and a degree in Product Design, led to Grew founding the Intrepid Camera Co. back in 2014. The Intrepid Enlarger, its latest venture, has been designed to break down what Grew describes as “the barriers around experimenting with printing in the darkroom.” After a few sessions in the darkroom, he decided that he wanted to find a way to “get everyone into it.”
High costs, a lack of awareness about the process and the amount of time it takes to go and scan prints are just some of the reasons why photographers are intimidated by the darkroom today. Intrepid’s enlarger is designed to eliminate some of these hurdles. The portable, inexpensive device easily clips onto the back of any 4×5 camera just like a film holder, enabling photographers to create prints efficiently using the camera as an enlarger. The team have been working hard testing and tweaking the design for over two years and, from the 04 October will be launching a Kickstarter campaign to crowdfund for the product. Grew hopes that the enlarger will “get people who want to print or haven’t even thought about it before, printing in spaces that they already have, such as bathrooms or sheds.”
Confronted with what can only be described as a bombardment of images every day – 95 million photos are uploaded to Instagram daily – even the selfie generation have a hankering for an analogue past. This extends beyond a yearning for something they used to have and into the realm of they never had at all: for items, aesthetics and experiences that belong to the baby boomers of the postwar era.
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Words: Alice Finney
Look out for the launch of the Intrepid Enlarger Kickstarter on 04 October here! Pledgers will be given a reward of their choice, and will be able to purchase the enlarger at a special price, before the release date.
The pop-up exhibition, which marks the launch of the Kickstarter, will be open to the public at BJP’s east London gallery space at Import House, 2 Clove Crescent, E14 2BE, from 05 October to 18 October 2o18 between 9:30 am and 7:00 pm, Monday to Friday. Many thanks to Ilford Photo and The Newspaper Club for their support.
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The Intrepid Film Photography Awards is supported by British Journal of Photography. Please click here for more information on sponsored content funding at British Journal of Photography.
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Urban farm bounties benefit cancer patients at Intermountain's treatment center
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Eugene Richards: The Run-on of Time
“You’re always looking for that time where everybody forgets you’re there and becomes themselves. Surprisingly they do, sometimes to the detriment of what you knew about them,” says Eugene Richards, who has devoted his career to documenting social injustice in America, and to injecting himself into intensely personal situations.
Richards’ style is up-close and unflinching, “ironically it’s the process of becoming as not there as you possibly can, if you hang around long enough people don’t care”. Though his photography has been described as poetic and lyrical, he has never thought of himself as an artist. “I went in with some knowledge of photography, but mostly with the idea of providing information,” he says.
After studying under Minor White at MIT, Richards joined VISTA, a government program formed as part of America’s “war on poverty”. He was sent to work in Arkansas, a southern US state, where he helped found Many Voices – a community newspaper, which reported on black political action and the Ku Klux Klan. The photographs he made during these four years were published in 1973 in his first book, Few Comforts or Surprises: The Arkansas Delta.
Returning to Dorchester, Massachusetts, Richards began to document the fast-changing, racially-diverse neighbourhood where he had grown up. In 1978, he published Dorchester Days, and that same year, to his surprise, he was invited to join Magnum.
His work has won acclaim from various institutions, including the ICP Infinity Award for Below The Line: Living Poor in America, and an Award of Excellence from the American College of Emergency Physicians for The Knife & Gun Club: Scenes from an Emergency Room. His book on the effects of hardcore drug-use, Cocaine True Cocaine Blue, received the Kraszna-Krausz Award for Photographic Innovation in Books. Other significant projects include a close look into the lives of those hidden away in public asylums, portraits of people deeply affected by the terrors of war, and a series in remembrance of the events of 9/11.
Perhaps surprisingly, though he finds it crucial to establishing a connection with his subjects, Richards prefers to approach the projects “cold turkey”, finding that “research predispositions a story”. Over the years, he has learned to adjust himself to fit into different situations, and he says he tries hard not to be judgemental. Maybe, he says, “my only gift in life is being a bit boring, because people don’t pay a whole lot of attention to me after a while”.
But while getting access and sparking relationships can be tough, what’s even tougher is leaving the situation. “You do get involved, despite what people say at times,” he says. “I’ve been in scenes where men have been abusive to women and you really do have to intercede.” He’s never paid his subjects, but he has been criticised for interfering – for filling up a refrigerator after a shoot, or giving young addicts clean syringes because they were giving each other AIDS.
“I think the worst thing for a lot of [photographers], or certainly myself, is the fact that you always know, no matter what you see, that you can always leave,” he says. “If you’re around people that are hungry, they’re gonna still be hungry when you’re going home. That’s the toughest part. It’s not a good feeling to feel, it’s a pretty selfish feeling.”
Out of all his projects, Exploding into Life is perhaps his most emotional, and certainly his most personal. It documents his first wife, the writer Dorothea Lynch, and her battle with breast cancer, which eventually led to her death in 1983. Richards initially refused to photograph her, but “she was insistent”. “It was hard because you can’t have the camera up at intimate times. Dorothea would comfort me sometimes, more than I could comfort her, and there’s no camera there. I’m not in any the pictures, which is a mistake,” he says.
His favourite photograph from the book is of Lynch laughing, with her surgical scar in shot. It was taken as a young male doctor came in for a “psyche-quiz”, and asked her whether losing a breast made her feel like less of a woman. “I didn’t take it very well, I took him outside and told him he was an asshole,” says Richards. “Male stupidity is not uncommon, as you know.”
But Lynch continued to laugh, answering that “naturally, losing a breast makes you feel like more of a woman”. She was, he says, “extraordinarily forthright”.
Richards’ work has won him international fame, and he’s now staged many high-profile exhibitions – including the large retrospective now on show in New York’s prestigious International Center of Photography. Even so, he still finds it hard to see his work on display. “It’s always disconcerting to put the life of people you know on the wall,” he says. “It’s more like a family album than an exhibition. It’s a memory bank.”
Eugene Richards: The Run-on of Time is on show until 06 January 2019 at the International Center of Photography [ICP], 250 Bowery, New York www.icp.org/exhibitions/eugene-richards-the-run-on-of-time
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Man arrested in connection with fatal shooting in West Valley City
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University of Utah students react to Ford, Kavanaugh hearings
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US mid-terms: Hackers expose 'staggering' voter machine flaws
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Publisher buys Billy Bunter catalogue
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A new wave of photographers in Africa State of Mind
“This is a unique time for African photography,” says curator Ekow Eshun. “There’s a wave of thrilling, artistically ambitious talent emerging across the continent.”
He’s gathered some of the best of it for a new show called Africa State of Mind, opening this week in New Art Exchange – the UK’s largest space devoted to culturally diverse contemporary visual arts. Including artists such has Emmanuele Andrianjafy, Sammy Baloji, and Musa N Nxumalo, the exhibition shows off talent from a new generation of African artists, exploring how they interrogate the idea of ‘Africanness’ in their work, and ‘Africa’ as a psychological as much as a physical space.
The exhibition is organised around three main themes – Inner Landscapes, Zones of Freedom, and Hybrid Cities. Inner Landscapes focuses on photographers such as Mimi Cherono Ng’ok, whose work gives a personal interpretation of place, in contrast to the apparently objective lens of documentary photography. Hybrid Cities documents rapidly-transforming African metropolises, such as Emmanuelle Andrianjafy’s Dakar. Zones of Freedom, meanwhile, gathers photographers whose work explores gender, sexuality and cultural identity – a radical act in a continent in which homosexuality is still outlawed in 34 of 55 nations.
“Africa State of Mind isn’t trying to be a wholesale survey of that work so much as an attempt to offerinsight into some of the key tendencies and themes informing the practice of thosephotographers. It’s about opening up new ways of looking at and understanding what it means to live in Africa, and be African, today,” says Eshun, who is creative director of Calvert 22 Foundation, and who was director of London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts from 2005-2010.
“Africa State of Mind takes place at a time in which popular Western views of the continent still remain limited. On one hand, there is the boosterism of an ‘Africa rising’ narrative, thatcelebrates the development of an emergent middle class and the growth of a tech sector driven by a young aspirational population, while glossing over the inequalities of income and opportunity that still stymie social progress in many countries. On the other hand, the reductive stereotype of Africa as a land of would-be migrants and corrupt rulers. A vision given ugly validation by President Trump’s description of its nations as ‘shithole countries’.”
“In an era of untruths and reductivenarratives, this exhibition highlights the importance of reflecting on Africa through the eyes of Africans,” says Skinder Hundal, CEO of New Art Exchange. “It resists and challenges our typically Western gaze of the continent through powerful and poetic works that are refreshingly understated. We are proud to be representing this new generation of dynamic photographers as New Art Exchange celebrates 10 years of championing the voices and perspectives of BAME artists and communities.”
Africa State of Mind is on show from 29 September – 16 December at New Art Exchange, 39 – 41 Gregory Boulevard, Nottingham, UK NG7 6BE The exhibition will then go on tour, with dates and places TBC www.nae.org.uk
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