Writings Archive - Stephen Mayes - page 2

“Django Unchained” – When Black Is White
Looked at with clear eyes this is a movie by a white man about white guilt in which Tarantino sets up Django as the black Christ to redeem the sins of the white race.
April 26th, 2013Stephen Mayes
Photographs Are No Longer Things, They’re Experiences
The swift pace at which we create images is only matched by the pace at which we discard them and yet, paradoxically, we’ve never been more engaged with images.
November 15th, 2012Pete Brook
From Memory To Experience: The Smartphone, A Digital Bridge
The legacy of cubism that was absorbed by popular culture through the Twentieth Century was harnessed by Hockey in his joiners and is finding a vernacular voice in the Smartphone as the social media community intuitively adopts the principle of taking multiple fragments and stitching them together in our minds.
September 22nd, 2012Stephen Mayes
When Photography Changed My Life
1987, Friday...
August 21st, 2012Stephen Mayes
The Theatre of War – Tim Hetherington on masculinity & aggression
The theatre of war means one thing to the actors and another to the audience. “The software runs it and the software is young men. And in some ways I’m part of the software. I get the operating system. I am the operating system"
August 25th, 2011Stephen Mayes
What Crisis? The business of photojournalism
It’s not about finding new ways to do old things, but time to radically rethink our business models by redefining our products, our partners and our clients.
February 23rd, 2010Stephen Mayes
470,214 pictures later – Lessons from World Press Photo

May 2nd, 2009Stephen Mayes
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