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This was on the Grauniad website today
Given that they curate their photography section fairly well and we can assume that a national broadsheet knows something about what is culturally current, relevant and important I am prepared not to just write it off...
...but I'm finding it challenging. Perhaps it is just the images that they have selected or perhaps it is seeing the work out of context in this way but it seems pretty scatter-gun, stylistically inconsistent and lacking narrative. Googling Robbie Lawrence and looking at his rather impenetrable website hasn't really helped. Am I just getting old? Am I missing something? What do those of you who are well versed in the photographic canon make of this?
Great Scot! The diverse charms of Caledonia – in pictures
From quiet gardens to leaping dancers, Robbie Lawrence captures Scotland’s cities, rural locations and coastal towns during a time of political upheaval
www.theguardian.com
Given that they curate their photography section fairly well and we can assume that a national broadsheet knows something about what is culturally current, relevant and important I am prepared not to just write it off...
...but I'm finding it challenging. Perhaps it is just the images that they have selected or perhaps it is seeing the work out of context in this way but it seems pretty scatter-gun, stylistically inconsistent and lacking narrative. Googling Robbie Lawrence and looking at his rather impenetrable website hasn't really helped. Am I just getting old? Am I missing something? What do those of you who are well versed in the photographic canon make of this?