CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
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JOHN GREEN marvels at the lifetime achievement of a master photographer of north-east England
(L to R) Mark Dewse a burner at Smith’ Dock in 1986; Cote Hill Island, equinox flood tide autumn 1974
[Ian Macdonald]
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
JAMIE BRITTON recommends this fine analysis of the architectural, ecological and infrastructural destruction of the Gaza Strip
Exhibition
Ian Macdonald: Process, Environment & The Print
Flow Photographic Gallery, London NW10
RECENTLY we have had a series of excellent photographic exhibitions, showcasing the work of photographers from north-east England who have documented the deindustrialisation and the “otherness” of that part of the world; its people neglected by successive Westminster governments.
This is hardly surprising as such islands of neglect, with their stark, derelict industrial sites and populations clinging on despite poverty and unemployment, provide ample subject matter for documentary photographers.
Ian Macdonald has been recording life, industry (and its decline) in north-east England since the 1970s, working alongside other notable photographers associated with the ground-breaking Amber collective.
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