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Sue Moffat
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Director New Vic Borderlines Honorary Research Fellow Keele Uni - Cultural Animation Practitioner - Documentary Drama Writer & Director
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In Göteborg at an event organised by the wonderful Verusca Calabria at the city’s Medical History Museum. Lots of lovely presentations and workshops and a chance to showcase the ‘bag of tricks’, which resulted from a collaboration with the brilliant @suemoffat.bsky.social and New Vic Borderlines
A cloth mat with colourful artwork and the phrase ‘Bag of Tricks’ at the bottom. There are sever items in the mat including an artist’s mode, a pencil and a mini blackbird on to which someone has chalked a smiley face.
May 8, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Today on UN prevention of genocide day we commemorate victims of genocide. 2024 marks 30 years since the Rwandan Genocide while 2025 marks the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia & Herzegovina & the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. www.un.org/en/observanc...
International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime | United Nations
The purpose of the day is to raise awareness of the Genocide Convention and its role in combating and preventing the crime of genocide, as defined in the Convention, and to commemorate and honour its ...
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December 9, 2024 at 11:12 AM
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A View From a Ditch in Denmark

#leicacamera ƒ/16 @1/2000 ISO:100 Daylight & Flash (off camera)


After, Richard Dadd, who murdered his dad & Albrecht Dürer, who had nice hair.

#Photography #Photograph #GalleryArtist #ArtHistory #artist
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Sat in a ditch in Denmark, thinking of Richard Dadd’s The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke (1855–1864) & Albrecht Dürer’s Great Piece of Turf (1503) while I composed this photograph. That came as a surprise to me as I was not considering either of them before hand, I made this picture and they jumped out of my unconscious. Literally, I understand why. To have those two artists rattling around in my mind seemed amusing at the time and I remember laughing to myself. The art history is always there even when I ma not looking for it. After 27 years of working as a lecturer for the National Gallery, London, it would be hard to ignore all of that learning. This is a daytime photograph, underexposed, then relit with an off camera flash. The whole effect is theatrical and in this case it makes the barley look almost architectural as the flash illuminates the stems. This technique is loosely based on what photography and art historians may refer to as Day for Night, La Nuit américaine (American Night). That is the method but my aim is to see our shared environment in a way that I find beautiful and moving. The picture is a photograph from a low view point (a ditch) looking at a field of ripe golden barley, which makes strong vertical lines to the top of the picture. The ears or seed heads are curved over. Laced through the stems are many Ox Eye Daisies, which move ones eye through the composition as we become aware of the different daisies. A little like looking at the stars in the night sky. The top of the picture is a suggestion of inky blue and the clouds in the sky. 

Over the last decade, this form flora photography, closer to portrait than a traditional landscape has become my passion and delight. These photographs are all day time, with virtually no post processing. I make them in the camera. When I look back at my pictures I always struck by what I would have missed if I wasn’t looking. That is one of the gifts of photography for me.
December 9, 2024 at 11:06 AM
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‘The Ethics of Remote Warfare’ by Lily Hamourtziadou is out now.

This book raises moral questions around the use of armed drones in modern war, by exploring the nature of killing from a distance.

Read more here: www.uwp.co.uk/book/the-eth...

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‘Hamourtziadou’s book not only casts fresh light on various aspects of ethical dilemmas in war arising from recent technological progress, but also massively extends the reach of International Relations discipline. The book explores the morality of warfare in the context of an increasingly remote way of fighting enemies in the twenty-first century. An impressive combination of critical theory and solid case studies.’ Bulent Gokay, Professor of International Relations, Keele University
November 21, 2024 at 10:32 AM