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For all of their apparent provocative content, Brassington’s images are strangely mute and even withdrawn. There is another impulse or motivation that can be seen behind them, one that goes beyond their iconography of dreams, fantasies and imaginings to explore the formal properties of photography.
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2017 winner, inaugural Don MacFarlane Prize, a new philanthropic fund established to honour the life and artistic ambitions of respected
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