FEEDBACK was in Paris recently, looking at an exhibition on women inventors in the Museum of Arts and Trades. It was frankly rather disappointing – mainly posters telling yet again how Hedy Lamarr helped invent frequency-hopping as used in the latest 3G cellphones, how Melitta Benz dreamed up filter coffee, and Stephanie Kwolek developed Kevlar at DuPont.
So we went across town to the European Centre of Photography and stumbled across something a lot more surprising, tucked away in a corner of the basement cafe. There, artist Clayton Campbell has a small exhibition of photos of children holding up signs that…
