Modern gems, but faux
Frames make it hard to feel that
They are more than scalps.
The Radical Eye, Tate Modern
Valid concerns here,
but you will find no critique,
of what binds them all.
Prix Pictet, Victoria and Albert Museum
Grand views, but lost is
The sense of libraries as
Privately magic.
Thomas
Schiff, The Library Exhibition, Aperture
Small havens for that,
Unconscious self-consciousness,
We must all traverse.
Mark Neville, Child’s Play at The Foundling Museum
A London long gone,
Young now old, reunited.
In soft, silver prints.
Roger Mayne, at The Photographer’s Gallery
Fine pictures but what
Matter to they who just see
In
Gaea
profit.
The Syngenta Photography Prize 2017, at Somerset House
Photos aside, this
Is a lifetime achievement
Oscar for Calle.
Sophie Calle, Dana Lixenberg, Awoiska van der Molen, and Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs, Deutsche Börse Foundation Prize 2017, at The Photographers Gallery
Big screens show sad scenes,
An angst balm for the soul of
The middle classes.
Richard Mosse, Incoming, at The Barbican Curve Gallery
It all means something,
Then it also means nothing.
Pastel nihilism.
Wolfgang Tillmans, 2017
at Tate Modern.
