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Tuol Sleng Photographs: Escaping the Archive

When Duch, the director of Tuol Sleng (or S-21) prison died at the age of 77 in September last year, Youk Change, the director of the…

16 min readApr 22, 2021

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Tuol Sleng Photographs: Escaping the Archive

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Li Zhensheng and the Cultural Revolution

(Original post from January, 2019. Li Zhensheng died in New York, June 2020)

4 min readJun 26, 2020

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Li Zhensheng and the Cultural Revolution

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Patrick Hutchinson rescues a man from a beating

Patrick Hutchinson by Dylan Martinez

5 min readJun 26, 2020

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Patrick Hutchinson rescues a man from a beating

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Photography in the Time of Brexit: The Curious Case of Mark Duffy

When former Houses of Parliament photographer Mark Duffy heard a knock on the door at 8am on Wednesday 12th of February, he thought it was…

17 min readMar 17, 2020

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Photography in the Time of Brexit: The Curious Case of Mark Duffy

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The Good, the Bad, The Dead and the Ugly

Watch a mob-film like Goodfellas and you will see representations of organised-crime lifestyles that are glamorous, sexy and altogether…

13 min readDec 30, 2019

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The Good, the Bad, The Dead and the Ugly

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Why photograph when every picture has already been made?

In the age of smartphones and social media, there is the idea that all pictures look alike. The algorithms make them look alike. Tourist…

16 min readOct 31, 2019

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Why photograph when every picture has already been made?

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Is there such a thing as an activist photographer?

The idea of the photographer as activist is an appealing one. It means that photographs really matter, that they can lead to changes in…

16 min readAug 28, 2019

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Is there such a thing as an activist photographer?

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Witness

Empathy, Charity, Emotional Narratives, and Cash

The Good, the Bad, and the somewhere-in-the-middle

14 min readJul 31, 2019

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Empathy, Charity, Emotional Narratives, and Cash

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Faces of the dead

I submitted my latest article for Witness at the end of last week. I write about a few things including the picture of Oscar and Valeria…

2 min readJul 12, 2019

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Faces of the dead

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Why are they scared of cameras?

There’s the idea that photography is not to be trusted, that the naive idea that there is a connection between reality and the image is…

6 min readJul 4, 2019

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Why are they scared of cameras?

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colin pantall

colin pantall

Colin Pantall is a photographer, writer and teacher based in Bath, in the UK. His photographic work looks at domesticity, fatherhood and family history.

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