Category: people
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diagonals #2
Prague #1-3 Kampa Museum #4 Franz Kafka Square #1 + 6 Baba #2 Na Příkopě #3 Ovocný trh/Fruit Market #4-5 Trade Fair Palace, Aero poster by František Zelenka) #1 Palladium mall #2 + 3 Prague metro #4 Hradčany Karlín Vyšehrad (#5 apartment block on Neklanova St, Josef Chochol, 1913-14) #1 Smíchov (exhibit in David Černý’s…
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tube houses + motorbikes
The narrow “tube houses” [nhà ống] are a striking feature of Vietnamese urban architecture. They are typically three to four meters (10 to 13 feet) wide. Some of the older tube houses in Hanoi’s Old Town, which were often inhabited by several families, are up to 100 meters deep, while newer tube houses can reach…
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spring at the lake
Spring in Canada is the promise of a romantic evening that starts with being kicked squarely in the nuts. Spring in Canada is nature’s broken promise. We’re promised flowers and beauty and we get hungover winter. Spring in Canada is a lie. Canada has four seasons alright. Summer, fall, winter and betrayal. Canadian comedian Brittlestar,…
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mostly blues (horizontals #2)
We did a lot of traveling in 2016. I retired from Lancaster University in March, and we returned to Canada after twelve years in the UK in June. Yoke-Sum started teaching at Alberta University of the Arts in the fall. Between visiting family in Singapore and Malaysia for the Chinese New Year and extending the…
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Theodor Adorno’s desk
being a record of the hunt for Theodor Adorno’s desk in Frankfurt am Main on 12 March 2016
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window shopping #1 (Amsterdam)
I am far from the first to photograph shop windows. The camera captures what our brains, navigating the urban landscape, habitually filter out: the melding of the displays behind the glass with reflections from the street that produces beguiling and sometimes disturbingly surreal landscapes. Eugène Atget’s “Boulevard de Strasbourg: Corsets” (1912) and “Magasin, avenue des…
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