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Source Magazine Vol. 3 No. 4

Source Magazine Vol. 3 No. 4Source
Winter 1997: Vol. 3, No. 4
English

Edited by John DuncanPeter Neill and Patrick McCoy.

 

Softcover
29 pages
295 x 210 mm
1997
ISSN Not Available

 

This issue of Source magazine focuses on documentary. It features an interview with Bruce Gilden (US, M), a piece about Paul Smith‘s (GB, M) photographs shot in Guatemala City which depict childhood solvent addiction, Derek Speirs‘ (IE, M) photographs of the Traveller community in Northern Ireland as well as a piece on Signals, a festival of women’s phootgraphy which ran from the 16th October – 12th November 1996 in Dublin and Waterford and work from Anthony Haughey (IE, M), Willie Doherty (NI, M) and David Gepp (NI, M). The cover photograph is by Bruce Gilden.

Artists and writers featured in this issue include Bruce Gilden (US, M), Paul Smith (GB, M), Derek Speirs‘ (IE, M), Anthony Haughey (IE, M), Willie Doherty (NI, M), David Gepp (NI, M), Christine Redmond (IE, F), Robert Mapplethorpe (US, M), Malin Starrett (M), E. Michael Desilets (US, M), Keiran Owens (M), Aphra Kerr (F), Anthony Haughey (IE, M), Sarah Edge (GB, F), Philip Cowan (GB, M), Rachel Ballagh (IE, F), Dettie Flynn (IE, F), Felicity Clear (IE, F), Clea van der Grijn (IE, F), Amanda McKittrick (NI, F), Caroline McCarthy (IE, F), Richard Billingham (GB, M) and Diane Arbus (US, F).

Editorial
‘Curiosity is probably what drives me more than anything. Pictures, after curiosity, were something I thought I could try to change things with. I do have an axe to grind that’s why I bother to take pictures and to write.’ The sentiments of Paul Smith are clearly from the ‘socially concerned’ school of photography. His images from Guatemala depict a harsh living environment and raise questions with the viewer about what possible appropriate response we can have to them.

Derek Speirs’ images form part of a campaign to raise awareness among the ‘settled community’ about issues of stereotyping and discrimination facing the Travelling community in Northern Ireland. This photographic project will be continued through Belfast Exposed workshops enabling travellers to use darkroom facilities and cameras to produce their own images.

The celebration of difference that informs the Travellers project is cited by New York photographer Bruce Gilden as one of his motivations for making photographs. He talks with Christine Redmond about getting started in photography and his twelve year project in Haiti.

Richard Billinghams Ray’s a laugh has just been announced as winner of the ‘photography Turner Prize’ of £10,000 awarded through the Citibank Private Bank competition. His book reveals intimately the life of his own family. It is reviewed for us by photographer Anthony Haughey whose own work was included with Billinghams in the Barbican’s exhibition ‘Who’s looking at the Family?’.

So Mapplethorpe’s work has left the Gallery of Photography onward on its world tour. The photographs of one of the world’s most renowned artists, are reviewed for us by Keiran Owens. The exhibition in Dublin did not produce the anticipated moral outcry. But would any gallery have shown it North of the border?’

— John Duncan
(source: https://www.source.ie/archive/issue10/is10editorial.php)

About the Magazine
Source is a quarterly photography magazine, available in print and as a digital edition, published in Belfast, Northern Ireland. They publish emerging photographic work and engage with the latest in contemporary photography through news, thoughtful features and reviews of the latest exhibitions and books from Ireland and the UK. Their website brings together an archive of writing and pictures from the magazine alongside current features.
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