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Image of monochrome cut newspaper mounted onto white paper. Text is visible on the left hand side of the newspaper and the cut shapes resemble snowflakes.

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Object type	Photograph
Title	23.3.16 (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques	Newspaper
Brief description	Photograph by Donna Ruff, '23.3.16, 2016' from the series, Migrant, 2011 -2016, hand cut pattern on deacidified newspaper
Physical description	Image of monochrome cut newspaper mounted onto white paper. Text is visible on the left hand side of the newspaper and the cut shapes resemble snowflakes.
Dimensions	Height: 349mm (frame) Width: 292mm (frame)
Gallery label	Known and Strange: Photographs from the Collection (2021-2022) Photography Centre, Gallery 101 Donna Ruff (born 1947) 23.3.16, 2016 From the series Migrant, 2011–16 Ruff used newspaper front pages as the basis for this series. She cut and reshaped the paper into patterns inspired by Moorish tiles and fretwork found in the Middle East, Spain and Africa. Here, she has intricately removed parts of a photograph from The Independentnewspaper which depicts the Brussels bomb attacks on 22 March 2016. Through her combination of design history, paper craft and photography, Ruff challenges the ways that photojournalism and the mainstream media have reported on global crises. Hand-cut pattern on deacidified newspaper Purchase funded by the Photographs Acquisition Group Museum no. E.3511-2018
Credit line	Purchase funded by the Photographs Acquisition Group
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.3511-2018

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Record created	August 1, 2018
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1457351/23316-photograph-ruff-donna/

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