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Campbeltown Courier Updated: 30/04/21, 1:30 pm Dr Kate Cowcher, centre, with St Andrews alumni and project research assistants, Meredith Loper, left, and Elikem Logan, right, with modern African artworks at Lochgilphead High School in 2019. Want to read more? At the start of the pandemic in March we took the decision to make online access to our news free of charge by taking down our paywall. At a time where accurate information about Covid-19 was vital to our community, this was the right decision – even though it meant a drop in our income. In order to help safeguard the future of our journalism, the time has now come to reinstate our paywall. ....
Date Time Significant art works rediscovered in rural schools Dr Kate Cowcher (centre) and St Andrews alumni and project research assistants, Meredith Loper and Elikem Logan, with modern African artworks at Lochgilphead High School, March 2019. An overlooked collection of modern African art in Argyll and Bute schools has been rediscovered by academics at the University of St Andrews. New research reveals that they are by some of the continent’s most notable modernist artists; together they provide a range of insights into the interests and concerns that pervaded the era of independence. The collection, which belongs to Argyll and Bute Council will now go on public display. ....
In Pictures Dr Kate Cowcher (centre) and St Andrews alumni and project research assistants, Meredith Loper and Elikem Logan, with modern African artworks at Lochgilphead High School, March 2019. An overlooked collection of modern African art in Argyll and Bute schools has been rediscovered by academics at the University of St Andrews. New research reveals that they are by some of the continent’s most notable modernist artists; together they provide a range of insights into the interests and concerns that pervaded the era of independence. The collection, which belongs to Argyll and Bute Council will now go on public display. ....
Colourising old photos is a falsification of history Matt Loughrey has falsely doctored photos from 1970s Cambodia – but all colourisation does that about 2 hours ago Emily Mark FitzGerald A motorbike drives past the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum (S-21 prison) in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 12 April 2021. Cambodian authorities called on US media group Vice and Irish artist Matt Loughrey to withdraw an article featured altered images of Khmer Rouge victims. The article was later removed from the Vice website. EPA/KITH SEREY
It’s not often that photo colourisation sparks an international incident, but this is precisely what’s occurred over the past few days, owing to a controversy that’s erupted over the online publication by Vice of doctored photographs of the 1970s Cambodian genocide, produced by the Mayo-based colourist Matt Loughrey. ....
Cambodia criticises Vice over images of Khmer Rouge victims altered by Mayo artist Published: Monday, 12 April 2021 07:27 Cambodian officials have condemned a Co Mayo artist for doctoring archive photos of Khmer Rouge genocide victims to show them smiling in prison. Vice News pulled Matt Loughrey s work off its site yesterday, later saying the article did not meet its editorial standards and publishing it was an error . Mr Loughrey claims he had moral reasons for adding the smiles, and the permission of victims relatives which the Cambodian Ministry of Culture says is not true. Dr Emily Mark-Fitzgerald, head of the School of Art History at UCD, says the altered images were in incredibly poor taste. ....