Colin Aherne - Three Circles Around The Sea (signed) belfast

Colin Aherne - Three Circles Around The Sea (signed) belfastOut Of Place Books 2024 The photos in Three Circles Around The Sea were made throughout Georgia in the autumn of 2022 and spring of 2023. What started out as photographing a trip across the country, developed into an observation of the current tensions in Georgia following the influx of Russian immigrants after the start of the war in Ukraine. The events photographed and mentioned in the book are a precursor to both the recent election that took place

They were unaware of each other’s visits until later

and artists

This extends the scope for conducting research outside Germany into the ideological and economic aspects of reunification

but the photographer’s interest in what she found soon eclipsed anything that could properly be thought of as a “story

402 illustrations

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fellowship and love

their meaning awakened solely in combination

fungus and soft

The title of this new book from renowned photographer and book-maker Torbjørn Rødland suggests that the artist is looking for the divine in his sitters

I prefer to think that

but also of the fight against the various forms of oppression and destruction inherent in capitalism