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Photography in Fiction – Europa?

This is more a case of photography and fiction rather than photography in fiction.  Photographs, in the form of ID images, make only a brief appearance, in the story ‘The AK-47 of pick-up Trucks’. ‘EUROPA? is a collaboration between a … Continue reading

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Photography in Fiction – Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida — itinerant war photographer, who loves his trusted Nikon, also atheist, closet gay man and high stakes poker player – ‘has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office’. His dismembered body is … Continue reading

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Photography in Fiction – I Could Read the Sky

I Could Read the Sky is a distinctive and rare integration of photography and fiction: it ‘is a collaboration in the shape of a lyrical novel, between writer Timothy O’Grady and photographer Steve Pyke’.  In intense, often searing prose, it … Continue reading

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Photography in Fiction: The Tribe That Lost Its Head

Browsing through an old diary yesterday, I came across the following entry: ‘Nicholas Monsarrat has just introduced two female characters into The Tribe That Lost its Head, photographers named Clandestine Lebourget and Noblesse O’Toole, would you believe.’ (16th December 1976). … Continue reading

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