Since its publication in 1972, John Berger's 'Ways of Seeing' has remained influential because it doesn't simply analyse images—it unsettles how weunderstand the act of looking itself. Berger begins with the idea that "seeing comes before words," a line that seems simple but has far-reaching consequences. We encounter the world visually long before we describe it, which means that by the time language arrives, our seeing has already been shaped by experience, ideology, and

Maurice Merleau-Ponty's 'Phenomenology of Perception' opens up a conversation into how we experience the world; not as detached observers...