Broadcast: Artist Shubha Taparia at Mayfair Art Weekend

As part of the Mayfair Art Weekend (28 June – 30 June 2019) artist Shubha Taparia presents a collection of photographs Spirit in the Inanimate looking at ephemerality. The series explores new details and elements from Taparia’s new large-scale installation made with construction materials Silhouette of an Unknown Landscape in her London studio. At Prahlad … Continue reading →

Broadcast – Veeranganakumari (Vee) Solanki

Veeranganakumari (Vee) Solanki is an independent curator and researcher from India, whose work involves curating young contemporary South-Asian artists. Visiting London as a resident at the Delfina Foundation and the Brooks Curatorial Research Fellow at the Tate Modern, she begins a 6 month cataloguing project mapping and researching UK based South-Asian artists who work with … Continue reading →

Six Pillars Broadcast – Photo London I

This week Somerset House is a live with world class photography as galleries from all over the globe display their best works at Photo London. We talk specifically to South African artist Kyle Weeks, showing at Officine Del Immagine in Milan, about the manifold stories behind his singular shots, in which Namibian youth take their … Continue reading →

Remembering A Self Taught Afghani Photographer – Shah Marai

  Agence France-Presse’s chief photographer Shah Marai, aged 41, was murdered in a  suicide attack, orchestrated by the radical Islamist group the Taliban. this week in Kabul. Marai was one of nine journalists and 25 people, killed in dual bomb blasts in the capital of Afghanistan, his home country. “This year’s bloody Taliban spring offensive … Continue reading →

What Photos Don’t Say: Iran

Where normally foreign travel photo pieces about Iran present photos that seek to reinforce our ideas of what Iran ‘should’ look like, this set taken and, clearly heavily edited, for Vice Germany seem to dodge that, and instead present a much fuller, and welcome banal side of life in Iran in pictures. The images selected … Continue reading →

New Six Pillars Podcast – The Culturist

On this week’s Six Pillars an interview with Emirati Hind Mezaina, an established artist and blogger in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, plus field recordings taken from a visa run to the nearby Sultanate of Oman, from Dubai, a round trip made in 4 hours. Hind, who is of part-Egyptian descent has been writing under … Continue reading →

This Week’s Six Pillars – The Culturist, Dubai

On this week’s Six Pillars an audio collage of field recordings taken from a visa run to the very nearby Sultanate of Oman from Dubai, a round trip made in 4 hours. Our main feature is an interview with Emirati Hind Mezaina, an established artist and blogger in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates of … Continue reading →

A New Suburban Marrakech – Simo Ezoubeiri

Simo Ezoubeiri lives in Chicago, USA and was born in Marrakesh, Morocco. His work involves film and photography and has shown in France, Spain, Morocco and USA amongst others. “Marrakech has an immortal ageless beauty. It is a serene, confident, beautiful, cultural, cosmopolitan, tolerant, artistic, and especially a humanistic place in the world. When a … Continue reading →

Currently Looking at…Jalal Sepehr

Artist Jalal Sepehr has been taking photographs of absurd situations involving Persian carpets for more than a decade. Born 1968, in Tehran he is a self-taught photographer who started taking pictures in 1994, while living in Japan between 1991-96. On returning to Iran, with commercial photographer Dariush Kiani, Sepehr founded the Fanoos studio in 2003. … Continue reading →

New Podcast – Ramadan in Yemen, East Wing Gallery

At a time when photography as an artistic medium is undergoing continual changes and challenges, a new gallery in Dubai focuses specifically on the medium. Having expanded and strained under the onset of digital photography and the smart phone camera boom, the art form is now faced with the proliferation of the image, a flood … Continue reading →