Gilles Peress

In the 1990s, the works of Gilles Peress stood alone, like outsiders in the photographic landscape. For all the talk of post-historic arbitrariness, “nonchalance” and individual freedom, each and every one of his images seemed to scream that the bottom line is always a question of power. His sociopolitical works about Northern Ireland, Iran and Bosnia consistently sought to create a visual context in which it was possible to perceive and grasp the issues, reports, ambiguities and dilemmas they addressed.