Clare Gallagher works full-time then comes home to the ‘mind-numbing’ toil of laundry, dishes, cooking and cleaning. So what happened when she started photographing it all?
‘I hate housework!” the American comedian Joan Rivers quipped. “You make the beds, you do the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again.” In her intriguing photobook, The Second Shift, Clare Gallagher places that quote next to an altogether more serious one by the French writer and philosopher Simone de Beauvoir, who famously compared the repetitive grind of housework to “the torture of Sisyphus”.
United Kingdom Latest News, United Kingdom Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Even Iran reformists and moderates criticise Trump attack that killed top generalActivists warn that moderates who have been pushing for engagement with the West will now be further sidelined
Read more »
Profumo: a scandal that keeps giving, even after 50 yearsThe Trial of Christine Keeler shows that even those of us alive in 1963 have much still to learn
Read more »
How Donald Trump did not even know who General Soleimani was before he became PresidentDONALD TRUMP sent waves of apprehension around the world when he ordered a fatal drone attack on the Iranian general Qassem Soleimani yesterday – but the President was not even sure who the powerful military leader was back in 2015, according to an unearthed interview.
Read more »
Even for this resilient bull market, the threats are starting to multiplyTrading has been buoyant through recent turbulence, but tensions in Iran – or a rise in the base rate – might change that
Read more »
Katie Price risks brain damage and even death with further plastic surgery plansKatie Price could risk brain damage and death with more plastic surgery plans, an expert reveals.
Read more »
The week's news in picturesA selection of news photographs taken around the world this week.
Read more »