Clare Richardson spent a large part of her formative years living a peripatetic existence, moving from country to country as her father’s military career demanded. It is perhaps this sense of her own cultural impermanence that has led to a fascination for small ‘close-knit’ communities which are firmly rooted in tradition and which exude an aura of communal certainty. A formative and evocative body of photographic work, Harlemville, centres on the children of a remote community in North America, inspired by the philosophical writings of the radical educationalist, Rudolf Steiner. With their quiet, formal clarity, her imag...

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I went to Niagara for the same reason as the honeymooners and suicide jumpers… the relentless thunder of the Falls just calls for big passion – Alec Soth

Alec Soth came to prominence in 2004 with his documentary Sleeping by the Mississippi, a poetic and deeply enigmatic account of the river and its people. Here the distinctive landscape and individuals he encountered were captured through a series of pictures suggesting an imaginary, dream-like meandering journey of their very own. Soth is continually intrigued with the act of photography in relation to different states of consciousness making pictures t...

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