Malaise: Emma Aars takes a guided tour of Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan mansion courtesy of the photographs released by the US government as part of the Epstein Files.

PORTFOLIOS: Thomas Haywood’s Weeping Rocks shows a contemporary Denmark where in discrete ways discontent hides behind the ordered appearance of things. Julia Tanner introduces the work noting ‘the images draw on cinematic iconographies of disaster as well as photographic traditions exploring sociopolitical realities from Walker Evans to Robert Frank.’
Christopher Stewart’s work The Colony was initially two bodies of work, one showing a colony of bats and the other, regular military exercises designed to counter China’s influence. After working on the two parallel series for some years he began to understand their inter-relationship. ‘The protection of borders; the annexation of territory; the forced displacement of populations: these themes began to emerge as the images were considered side by side’.
Mark Walsh’s work Towards an Empty Sea started with a visit to an old derelict house by a river. ‘It was if the river was growing up through the house, absorbing all that human experience into itself’. Walsh is interested in the idea of following a river to the sea as an exercise in escape and enlightenment in contemporary culture.

REVIEWS: Exhibitions of the work of Boris Mikhailov, Rodney Graham and Samuel Laurence Cunnane. Book reviews: Joan Fontcuberta Against Barthes, Yan Wang Preston, The Erasure of Palestine and Sally Mann's Art Work and much more