Beyond Project

As my 8 year old daughter loves taking photos, I’ve set her a challenge. She has to find my mobile phone every day (or whenever she remembers, maximum of once a day), take a photo with it and post it as my wallpaper, which I’ll write about for the blog.

This is her first one. It’s a photograph of a school newsletter that she saved from about a year ago, which shows me doing an assembly for her school. Both her and her sister pinned up the newsletter in their bedrooms. Funny she chose this to be her first photo for this experiment. ... read more »

“There remains a woeful lack of critical analysis of capitalism here.”
Book owned and notes by Graham Bottrill ... read more »

In Roland Barthes’ famous book about photography, Camera Lucida, the French theorist writes, “Ultimately, photography is subversive, not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks.“ ... read more »

Front page of every paper is about the hacking scandal and Sir Paul Stephenson’s resignation as head of the Metropolitan Police Force.   All except The Sun, which has The Beckhams’ baby in a huge photo, with just a tiny mention of this story. In the future The Sun should not dare ever complain about the low levels of education in this country, as they are the prime promoters of keeping British society ignorant and uneducated.

Here’s the headlines;

The Times– “Forced Out” ... read more »