"Nonstop imagery is our surround, but when it comes to remembering, the photograph has the deeper bite.... In an era of information overload, the photograph..is like a quotation, or a maxim or proverb." (Susan Sontag: Regarding the Pain of Others 2003)
So - what's going on? Zimbabwe on the utter brink; Tibet: more shootings & protests against the stately progress of the Olympic Flame - via 10, Downing Street no less. What else have we got? Putin & Nato; Credit Crunch; Irish Economic Miracle tainted by corruption; Pregnant Man; Canadian seal culls; Darfur; Basra escalates.... Yet what is the image in most of the Brit papers today? Why obviously super-model, Naomi Campbell - as incensed as we all might be at the loss of a designer suitcase - being driven away from Heathrow Terminal 5 by a friendly police officer - presumably not the one at whom she allegedly spat?
The image above shows a detail from 'Queen & Country' by Iraq War Artist Steve McQueen. Find out more below & sign the petition for Royal Mail to issue the stamps in tribute to the fallen servicemen & women the project commemorates. http://www.artfund.org/queenandcountry/Queen_and_Country.html
Dominique Jackson is a freelance writer & translator with more than 20 years’ experience of the Fourth Estate. She studied Modern & Medieval Languages at Magdalen College, Oxford and trained at Reuters News Agency after graduating.
She worked initially as a Foreign Correspondent, reporting from Latin America, South East Asia and Western Europe, and latterly, as a writer and editor on London’s Fleet Street. She is currently a columnist and blogger for the Mail Online RightMinds Debate project. Read her most recent articles here:
Dominique's work has also appeared in publications as diverse as the Guardian, the Spectator, the Financial Times, Marie Claire, Avenue Magazine, the Times Educational Supplement, the Volkskrant & the South China Morning Post.
My latest project - raising awareness of Lewy Body Dementia and of elder and vulnerable adult abuse can be found here: http://ahappierending.blogspot.com/