I have this long post I have been trying to write, but am too exhausted to finish. Little Miss F is killing us by means of sleep deprivation. The only thing I don’t understand is why the hell is she so full of energy.
Photo links:
Alex Webb has photographed a fascinating story for National Geographic on a railway connecting Caspian and Black seas. The story is just as fascinating as the photographs. NPR has a preview of the story and National Geographic has an extended on-line gallery.
Alain Keler from the French agency Myop has a sad and haunting set of photographs of Roma people currently persecuted quite mercilessly in France. Even some of the members of the right wing UMP are appalled by the deportations. BBC story is here.
Check out NYT’s Lens blog and the work of George Georgiou on modern Turkey.
The photograph is of Long’s Hill Convenience in my new neighbourhood.
Croatian word of the day: san sleep
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Great, great news for Newfoundland writer Lisa Moore. She is one of the 12 writers on the longlist for The Man Booker Prize for her novel February. It’s a really excellent book following a spouse of one of the men who lost their lives in the 1982 during the Ocean Ranger oil rig disaster. The book is about grief first and foremost. Lisa has written a very emotional and yet restrained book that never slips into being pathetic – a feat that a lesser writer would not be able to pull off.
This is a photo of Lisa from a shoot earlier this year for The Guardian.
Croatian word of the day: nagrada award
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Auntie Crea’s – our favourite Saturday spot and a few photo links:
I am currently reading Don McCullin’s autobiography Unreasonable Behaviour and, understandably, his time in Vietnam features prominently. Here is a collection of photographs from Vietnam published on-line in Denver Post on the 35th anniversary of the fall of Saigon.
Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb have an interesting set of images from Cuba in Visura Magazine.
Kottke provided a fascinating link to the work of photographers employed by Albert Kahn in early 1900s. You can see a selection of the work at the book’s official website.
Croatian word of the day: sol salt [sol]
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