To photograph is in some way to appropriate the object being photo-graphed. It is a power/knowledge relationship. To have visual knowledge of an object is in part to have power, even if only momentarily, over it. – John Urry in The Tourist Gaze. I picked up a book, what seemed like a bog-standard picture book,…
Category: Review
Film: Tebusan Dosa (The Redemption of Sin)
I look forward to watching the new Indonesian film, Tebusan Dosa, a ‘mystery-horror’ work by Yosep Anggi Noen, an enormously talented filmmaker (See his body of work, here). While I am not a fan of ‘horror’ films – not at all – Noen’s exceptional talent and vision, and the performances of Happy Salma, Shogen and…
The Hill of the Skull: A brief commentary and notes about a photo essay
The Hill of the Skull is a book-length photo-essay by Jeremy Bassetti, a “writer, photographer and educator,” and Professor at Valencia College in Orlando, Florida in the USA. With the text and photographs, Bassetti tracks his journey to a sacred mountain in Quillacollo, Bolivia as part of his academic research on mountain cultures, ostensibly to get an understanding of…