Internationally renowned curator and critic David Campany discusses the nature and fate of news photography archives, the appropriation of press imagery by artists, and in particular the works of Thomas Ruff, Jonah Samson, and Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, which appear in Yesterday’s News, an outdoor exhibition curated by Campany for Capture 2018.
Jonah Samson, Why hasn't everything already disappeared?, 2017 (installation mock-up)