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the small picture“When words become unclear, I shall focus with images. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence” – Ansel Adams openDemocracy’s image of the week. Land, sea, sky and a solitary monk mark the height of German Romanticism
Jacob Lawrence illustrates the mass exodus of African-Americans to search for a better life in the north.
A photographic self-portrait spanning fifty years of life in China. Read the rest of this post...
Truth, heresy and repression in thirteenth-century Europe. Read the rest of this post...
Seventy years since the bombing of Guernica, Picasso's masterpiece stands as an iconic condemnation of the suffering caused by war. Read the rest of this post...
A land, a people and a society through the lens of David Goldblatt. Read the rest of this post...
A second life for the Aral Sea? Read the rest of this post...
What is life like at Guantánamo Bay? Photographer Paolo Pellegrin offers a rare glimpse: over 100 photos inside the prison complex, plus audio interviews with human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith and former Camp X-Ray detainee, Moazzam Begg. Read the rest of this post...
Departure, transit and arrival: photos and relics from the height of the transatlantic slave trade. Read the rest of this post...
On a recent visit to Poland, openDemocracy’s Rafael Broch is quietly inspired by an exhibition exploring the lost Jewish culture of Galicia. Read the rest of this post...
“From the shores of the Mediterranean, I prefer to remember the warmth and the dance. From Beirut I do not want to speak of missed opportunities, but of a city that was opened to travellers, a tolerant harbour.” Artist, entrepreneur, writer, and openDemocracy friend, Mai Ghoussoub explains her love of words, images and ideas. Read the rest of this post...
How does one tell the story of war? Nominated for the 2007 Photography Prize, Walid Raad’s visual records of modern Lebanon attempt to address the issues of retelling and representing a bloody history. Read the rest of this post...
Will there be war between the US and Iran? Who – other than Paul Rogers – knows? As the storm clouds gather, the Small Picture looks back at Bahram Beizai’s masterful anti-war work. Read the rest of this post...
Today, the ICC ruled that Thomas Lubanga, notorious child soldier-enlister, would be the first suspect to stand trial for his role in the Congolese civil war. From Kinshasha to Freetown, former child soldiers draw their experiences. Read the rest of this post...
An intense cultural creativity underlined the troubled political peace of 1920s Germany. A new exhibition highlights art from the short-lived Weimar Republic. Read the rest of this post...
“Dear customer, for a thousand and one reasons, all prices are final.” Niki Akhavan photographs everyday signs in Iran. Read the rest of this post...
As civil war threatens to overwhelm an increasingly volatile Iraq, what is life like for the Kurds? A series of animated snapshots of life in northern Iraq. Read the rest of this post...
Storyboard stills from Rajko Grlić's "Border Post", a film focusing on a group of soldiers in the final years of the Yugoslavian republic. Read the rest of this post...
From a new exhibition by Milton Rosa Ortiz: eight ethereal sculptures, suspended by filaments, made from hundreds of coral and glass shards gathered from the Puerto Rican coastline. Read the rest of this post...
A new photographic series by acclaimed Iranian filmmaker, Abbas Kiarostami. Read the rest of this post...
Portrait by Santiago Rusiñol, a Catalan modernist painter, poet and playwright. Read the rest of this post...
John Vink photographs government-enforced evictions in Cambodia’s urban poor community. Read the rest of this post...
The 50th BFI London Film Festival opens this week, showcasing the work of the best new directors and revisiting old masters. Read the rest of this post...
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