Category: people
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doors close soon after the melody ends (portals #4)
Tokyo September 2010 Tokyo September 2010 Tokyo September 2010 Beijing April 2012 1 Singapore December 2005 (Armenian Church) 2-3 Tokyo September 2010 4 Calgary May 2025
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beijing blur
If Miroslav Tichý had visited Beijing in April 2012 this is what his cameras might have recorded. (last 2 photos here are Shanghai)
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portals #2
Mexico City, May 2025 Singapore, June 2022 Mexico City, May 2025 Penang, June 2022 Mexico City, May 2025
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tina modotti + me
Photo at lower right is of Tina Modotti, by Edward Weston. In 1865, young Lewis Payne tried to assassinate Secretary of State W. H. Seward. Alexander Gardner photographed him in his cell, where he was waiting to be hanged. The photograph is handsome, as is the boy: that is the studium. But the punctum is:…
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the sweet smell of lavender
In memory of Hind Rajab and Sidra Hassouna On April 3 the Israeli magazine +972 published an explosive article by Yuval Abraham based on interviews with six Israeli intelligence officers, all of whom have served in the army during the current war on Gaza. Its subject was the use of AI software named “Lavender” to generate targets…
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unexpected encounters #15: are, bure, boke
By modernity, I mean the ephemeral, the fleeting, the contingent, the half of art whose other half is the eternal and the immutable. Charles Baudelaire, “The Painter of Modern Life” Photography is painting with light! The blurs, the spots, those are errors! But the errors are part of it, they give it poetry and turn…
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unexpected encounters #7: aesthetics
Beauty will be convulsive, or it will not be. André Breton, Nadja Greece’s government has said the country is “turning a page” after Eurozone member states reached an agreement on the final elements of a plan to make its massive debt pile more manageable. The government spokesman, Dimitris Tzanakopoulos, hailed “a historic decision” that meant “the Greek people…
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