Essays : Saint Lucy

Books discussed: ‘The Women’s Mobile Museum,’ ‘Somewhere Along the Line,’ and ‘Dhaka.’

Originally trained as a painter, England seeks to reassert photography’s physicality.

Charlton shifts our perspective to examine ideas around the private spaces of domesticity as it relates to the history of race, power, and gender.

“Under this mask, another mask; I will never finish removing all these faces.”

Floating above the terrestrial scene is a waxing moon, its craters and seas finely etched into its silvery face.

1864 by Matthew Brandt, Too Tired for Sunshine by Tara Wray, A Habit of Self Deceit by Lorena Turner.

Bazille’s flower seller poses a more complicated question than Manet’s Olympia.

Kopi Susu is modest in scale but not in ambition, its power is to be found in the contemplative and the quietly suggestive, it whispers its secrets.

Hujar understood and utilized photography’s tension between document and theatricality.