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Responding to the way in which the content and style of photographs are so often limited by the production and distribution processes of the mass media, Owen Logan uses digital technology to produce a new way of seeing the oil industry. As you can see, many of his pictures are made by digitally splicing separate photographs together. The effects of these montages are in part about the relation * Cabinet cupboard knobs
s are quotations from interviews with them. (Here we can see the importance of written text for shaping our understanding of the photographs.) Visualising people’s individual stories in this way helps to bring a wider range of experiences of the oil industry into the public sphere. Even if, according to Logan, many people are in denial (to use Cohen’s term (2001)) about the critical questions raised by the impacts of the global oil industry and by the dependency on oil which affects pro
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produce photographic work for the Scottish Parliament building in 2004, Logan took the opportunity to develop several photographs, and accompanying text, similar to that reproduced here. The demand he was making in that project, as in this
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