Peacebuilding a shared Northern Irish society
At a café in Llanberis, I met up with Duncan, who told me that he has had his kit officially inspected for his UTMB Snowdonia 100k race, with the exception of a mandatory cold weather item of “clear glasses” that have to cover his eyes. We returned to the UTMB Snowdonia village, where I took... Continue Reading →
Book review — How I Make Photographs ( Joel Meyerowitz) by Allan LEONARD 18 October 2020 Joel Meyerowitz is a renowned street photographer, long before the term became a familiar recognised genre (or subgenre of documentary photography). Once working as an art director, after an encounter with photographer Robert Frank, he quit his job and... Continue Reading →
Film review: Photo City by Allan LEONARD 13 April 2018 Photo City is a documentary film by John Murphy and Traolach Ó Murchú, about the story of Rochester, New York, becoming the Silicon Valley of photography, with the clustering of image-based companies such as Xerox, Bausch and Lomb, and Kodak. And how this industry has... Continue Reading →
How many times have you shouted at a politician on the television? How many times have you heard them repeat the same inane, lamentable sound-bite contrary to the argument at hand? The politician is a creature apart: they claim altruistic vocation yet for a large majority the nature of the beast is careerist narcissism. It... Continue Reading →