Category Archives: Photography

Enrichment – IGCSE – Who was Rosie the riveter?

If you click here, you will an article exploring the identity of the famous Rosie the Riveter. It is well worth a read – not least for the insight the casual sexism of the caption next to Naomi Parker. This … Continue reading

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Window-Shopping Through the Iron Curtain. An insight into a lost world…

There is a lovely article here from the BBC news magazine about the work of David Hlynsky. After the collapse of the Iron Curtain he photographed as much as he could of the quickly disappearing Communist world. The article focuses on the a tantalising set of … Continue reading

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Conflict Time Photography

All, I visited the Conflict Time Photography exhibition at the Tate Modern  over the weekend. You can find reviews of it from The Daily Telegraph here, and from The Guardian here . As Alistair Snook suggests in the Telegraph, the basic premise of the … Continue reading

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