Open Wound: Chechnya 1994-2003 photographs by Stanley Greene / Trolley Gallery, Redchurch Street, London E2.
At school I dropped geography for art, then chemistry for photography... Today I wish I could fully comprehend the effects and importance of geographical classifications and divides throughout history and the huge impacts and conflicts land has and does play in the super heightened political world we live in. Communication and technology can allow a voice of an occupied or silenced land or party to be heard, but it can also smother it.
Stanley Greene's photographs expel the air from my lungs, beautifully high contrast images of human spirit and the continuation of life shot in a uber stylised way; you would almost expect to see "CALVIN KLEIN ETERNITY" at the bottom of some of his portraiture. His subjects, in life and death, truly are models of the effects of Westernisation.
#18 April 2005
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Yeah. I just never understood why they gotta use degrees to map out positions. Its a unit of measurement which is already being used to express temperature. I'm sure they could think up an original unit.
Kelvins never really took either.
Posted by: Ken Bong | 1:29pm 18 April 2005