Roundabout, Andersonstown, Belfast by Paul Graham

(Copyright - Paul Graham)

"..it was this photograph that set the tone for what was to come. Whilst standing by the roadside with his medium format camera in hand, a British Army patrol approached him and asked what he was doing, whilst making it clear he should take no more pictures. But his instincts took over and he made this frame as the patrol left the scene. You can see the soldiers running off down the road on the right, with one still on the roundabout.

At the time he didn't realise its significance. It was only when he was looking through his negatives that he realised this was his breakthrough picture, one which offered a gateway to the story. His style was now set, it would be anti-surveillance, turning the camera from a device that focuses in on the most important part of the frame, to one that captures the wider view and pushes the viewer to seek out the significance of the picture."

From the blog of Phil Coomes, BBC Picture Editor.

'Lust' from Gabriel Jones - Somewhere on Time II

(Copyright - Gabriel Jones)

"Jones has an eye for the subtle, barely perceptible gestures, glances and stances that become visible through his male and female protagonists.
Recording them, he plays with the difference between the precise moment of a spontaneous 'gesture' and the extended duration of the frozen 'pose'. His achievement is to reveal to the viewer aspects of the human psyche concealed for their laying bare our vulnerability and proportionately evasive of neat words."

Exhibited at Galerie Bugdhan und Kaimer, Düsseldorf

geveldetail by Ellen Korth

(copyright - Ellen Korth) 

"In her detailed research with her camera, the photograph artist Ellen Korth has detected in the buildings of Herman Bessels traces of the relationship, capturing them in excerpts that nevertheless represent the whole. This book bears no claim to documentary or biography, but makes a theme of the interplay of two closely-interwoven art forms.

It is largely the outer shells of the buildings, which mirror the striving for function, form and shape. And likewise, these are the intentions of the artist, who desires a view behind the façade of human appearance in her photographs."