Unknown Waters: The Images of Allan Sekula’s Fish Story and our Wayward Conceptions of the Sea
When we look at photographs we see the way light plays on a scene, and bear witness to a moment distant from ourselves. Shadows and highlights force the eye to move. Situations are gleaned. But less often, when we see an image within the context of, say, the bizarre and brutalist structures of globalization, the eye strains to the edges, looking for more information. Which companies operate these vast fleets of cargo ships carrying our commodities across thousands of miles? What is it like to weld steel plate in a shipyard’s metal shop?
Gabriel Boudali reviews Fish Story by Allan Sekula.
April Call for Submissions: Prose Fiction
As the new fiction editor of 3:AM, I invite you to submit, throughout the month of April, work of one thousand to five thousand words that not only formally intrigues, but has, in that vague and indispensable phrase, something to say—something, I hope, at least as venturesome as its style. I’m keen to see what […]