Stephen Gill – Pigeons _alt_Sam Youkilis - Somewhere Screenprintings liberated from the landscape

liberated from the landscape

Roy DeCarava

which covered the years 1978–2010

the participant’s body generating an intense light from within

Notwithstanding articulates itself as a laconic series of speech acts

Stephen Gill – Pigeons _alt_Sam Youkilis - Somewhere Screenprintings liberated from the landscapeStephen Gills photographs are devoid of sentiment or affectation rather than showing the pigeon in our world, they take us into theirs. The lens noses in under bridges, squeezes through cracks and scopes out crannies. These are images that bestow on the despised flying rats that oft trumpeted but seldom realised attribution: their dignity: here are pigeons making their lives in a natural landscape, for, whatever else humans may be, we are animals too,