Sarah Pochin says there are too many black and brown faces in the adverts. I have some words about this.

The late vegetarian playwright George Bernard Shaw used to say he’d like to dig up Shakespeare and throw stones at him. It’s a completely unreasonable position to take in so many ways, but not entirely. Shaw got irritated with some of the weaknesses in Shakespeare’s...

I made this photograph on Sunday, 17th August 2025, around 5pm. It’s made of light sensitive emulsion, gelatin, paper, plastics and photons. Photons are possibly the most magical thing I can think of as light from the sun is energy cause by the nuclear fusion of...

I saw many other exhibitions but these were the ones that I ended up thinking about the most. There were two shows that stood out to me were: Diana Markosian: The Cut Out, Father series, 2014-2024 and In Search of the Father by Camille Lévêque. These two could not be...

I have a thing about hijabs. Not all hijabs, if you want to wear a hijab, wear it with pride, it's just the compulsory ones that I dislike. My favourite hijab game by far has been the Iranian form of drop a light scarf in the proximity of your head and sashay. At...

Speigel im speigel, Krakow, 1993, Tina Rowe. I've been thinking about Sophie Calle's Suite Venitienne where the artist followed a bloke she met at a party in Paris to Venice secretly photographing him. Calle's practice was already kind of stalky so this extension of...

Live Animation https://tinarowe.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/reeds.mp4I went for a walk last Sunday and took an instax that doesn't belong to me. I've thought a lot about how an image emerges using instant film. coupling it with the timelapse function on my...

I am a mixed race transracial adoptee or TRA. I was adopted in 1964 into an established white family with three sons. My family were part of the aspirational middle class and all of the people I knew and loved were white. I was a happy child until I started school and...

This is a horrible disease no matter where it comes from. And then we have this horrible political landscape where it's all about ideology so caution seems to be tempered by ideology. I am pretty sure you cannot fight a disease with an opinion no matter how fantastic...

For the most part I've never understood the appeal of Kanye West but I have form when it comes to missing the boat with great black music as evidenced by the fact it took me years to appreciate Beyoncé. So for all I know Ye is as good as other people tell me. I've...

Ry Cooder made an album called Jazz in the late 70s. It includes the song Shine, it caused a kerfuffle at the time and Cooder has put some water between himself and that album since, but I actually like that album and have a certain fondness for that tune. It's a...