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paul antick edit:

spent the morning at syd’s studio discussing redesign of billboards. a photographer friend of his dropped in – former photojournalist on the sunday times. he liked the project but suggested that we make the title text bigger. ‘nice pictures. nice design, but i want to know what it’s all about. explode the text!’ interesting to compare his thoughts on this with the director of a canadian art gallery who, when i mentioned the possibility of making the references to holocaust sites more explicit, persuaded me to err on the side of discretion. which is not to say that in Art subtlety is always all and that in the world of gung-ho political photojournalism it rarely is…as for me, i’m stuck in the middle with…