Harry Gruyaert

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Technip Angra Dos Reis, Brazil, 2008

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Dursey Island, Beara's estranged extremity

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Cycling the Ring of Beara

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On the Orange Empire of Southern California

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Poisoned Garden: Richard Mosse's Broken Spectre

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Flight from the Grid: on the photographic archive of the Dartmoor Trust

January 27, 2023

The archive, naturally, is a chronicle, in a kind of raw and mixed-up way. The earliest images date to the 1880s, a decade of great democratisation for photography. And so in strict empirical terms, it speaks to only a sliver of Dartmoor’s human history. But the weight of the past is present in virtually every collection. You routinely stumble across Druidical antiquities and monumental relics from the Bronze Age; and, in the Francis Lee collection, arrowheads, axes, daggers and scrapers - all subjected to the cold gaze of scientific documentation. The archive is steeped in an expansive historical consciousness, testament to a time when photography became the handmaiden of both archaeology and antiquarianism.

January 27, 2023