Susie Tsang

NORTHERN ART CARBOOTY STALL HOLDER: SUSIE TSANG

Selling: Susie is a Photographic Artist based in Manchester. She is fascinated with photographic processes and uses this to experiment and create work. She will be selling prints and postcards of her work (and maybe some little bookworks too if she has time before the big NAC day!) 

Price range: £1.50 (postcards) - £35 (various prices and sizes for prints) 

For more information check out: www.susietsang.co.uk

Don’t forget !

I produced this calendar to raise money for National Parents Network to Protect Children from Radiation (Japan; http://kodomozenkoku-news.blogspot.jp/), all proceeds will be donated to that great cause.

If you haven’t done so, still is time to support and get your copy.

Photographs by Andrei A. Tarkovsky

"An image

is an impression

of the Truth,

which God

has allowed us

to glimpse

with our 

sightless eyes.”

Disquiet by Amani Willett, is a meditation on starting a family in a time of social unrest and uncertainty in America. A metaphoric journey that examines the first two years in the life of my son, Disquiet weaves intimate family pictures with images of American society and the economic and political concerns at the time. Amani’s images of his growing son and family are atypical, int he sense that they don’t involve cute, goggly faces, and funny customs. Instead they depict a rather melancholic, dark, and anxious view. It tells a story of time and unpredictable change. We know that photographs do not change the past or the an outcome, yet Amani sets out to depict our instinct to love and desire to protect.

CLICK THE IMAGE ABOVE TO SEE INSIDE

Christine Redmond - Sea Change published by Artist Photobooks 2nd edition (2014) first edition originally published by Roundtower (2013)

Another great book by the team at Artist Photobooks. With this one, Christine Redmond has chosen to show us Forty Foot located on Dublin Bay’s southern tip where people have been swimming year-round for over 250 years. It was originally exclusively for men but in the 70’s, during the women’s liberation movement a group of female equal-rights activists jumped into the waters and it has since been open to women and children as well.

Forty Foot has a lot of history and the foreword provided by Ian Bamford does a great job of teaching us some of it. It is known for it’s strong Joycean connections. The opening section of Ulysses was set in Forty Foot. Unfortunately, I am unfamiliar with Joyce’s work and can’t really comment on it. But from what I’ve heard of Ulysses, I definitely hope to read it one day.

The place’s intended purposes have undoubtably changed throughout the years, from military defence post to popular bathing place. It has become a place where people come to escape. to be free of judgement, free of daily stresses, free of all thought. Like a form of meditation I suppose. Those who swim these waters let it all go.