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Eyes that feel: ‘blind’ photography in Mexico

“It’s all in the mind, and my mind is beautiful” Maritza González is a visually impaired photographer, a ‘blind photographer’ if you may. Although upon hearing the term ‘blind photography’ one immediately thinks oxymoron, surely?  If, as photographer India Rose Farman advised me, you perceive the camera as an extension of the body, or if you […]

Art focus: Carlos Cruz-Diez and Jesus Rafael Soto

Lucie Edwards introduces us to Venezuelan participative kinetic art Last June, a series of Latin American kinetic and visual artists were showcased in the Royal Academy of Art in London, under the title ‘Radical Geometry.’ The exhibition aimed to bring together twentieth-century revolutionary art from various Latin American artists from the Collección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros. The […]