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novelist Will Wiles scrutinises Tony Blair’s so-called ‘sofa politics’

and the unspoken criteria used to determine acceptable evidence of conflict

Published by Ivory Press (Madrid)

The Sun Shone Glaringly evokes all the tropes of the LA myth to address an essential question: how do popular representations of Los Angeles affect our everyday experience of the city

Tomoko Sawada - Recruit Michael Buxton Collection Aernout MikIn 'Recruit', Tomoko Sawada continues her work on the autoportrait at the heart of contemporary Japanese society. This time, she explores the identity photos, which Japanese students take at the end of their studies when they start looking for work. She retains the well established formal conventions dress, posture, neutral facial expression but adds a subtle variation. Starting with a fixed photographic method, which imitates the photobooth with its