Colin Pantall

Writer/Photographer/Teacher

The Adventures of Guille and Belinda.
ALESSANDRA SANGUINETTI

The pictures are beautiful and balance symbols of laughter and love with those of mortality, betrayal and death.

The Flesh and the Spirit.
SALLY MANN

You can smell the decay in The Flesh and the Spirit, the skin virtually peels off in your hands.

The Cruel Radiance.
SUSIE LINFIELD

Entertaining, enlightening and humanist, a love of photography and belief in its use as a power for good are at the heart of this book.

Where Children Sleep.
JAMES MOLLISON

Moving without ever becoming sentimental, Mollison casts his immaculate eye over wealth, poverty and the isolation of childhood.

Allotments.
ANDREW BUURMAN

A small but perfectly formed book that shows the importance of local land for local people.

For a Language to Come.
TAKUMA NAKAHIRA

Grainy, blurry and out of focus, this is a classic where the language is one of urban landscapes collapsed into the chaos of post-apocalyptic static and inertia.

Grimaces of the Weary Village.
RIMALDIS VIKSRAITIS

Mortality, debauchery and decay on a rural scale.

A Million Shillings.
ALIXANDRA FAZZINA

For the beauty, bravery and wretchedness of the pictures and the people of Somalia.

Infidel.
TIM HETHERINGTON

Infidel reflects what the reader brings to it and will change with time. Most of all, it is a commentary on futility and the pressures and limitations of living in confinement in an alien land with a small group of men. In a strange way, this is a partner book to Ed Clark's Guantanamo.

Guantanamo.
EDMUND CLARK

How imprisonment degrades life in the penal, domestic environment and the family environment. The pictures are sparse and clinical and so is the book, a reflection of the place from which they emerged. In a strange way, this is a partner book to Infidel.

Colin Pantall is a UK-based writer and photographer. He is a contributing writer for the British Journal of Photography and a Senior Lecturer in Photography at the University of Wales, Newport. http://colinpantall.blogspot.com

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