Change Islands, Newfoundland.
Croatian word of the day: ograda fence [og ra da]
February, 2010 Archives
About a month ago, I photographed Newfoundland author Lisa Moore for the Guardian. Today, the Guardian ran the photos and the piece Lisa wrote on grief. Her latest novel, February, is shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. If I ever manage to get through my grad school readings, that is going to be the first thing on my reading list.
This is not the photo the Guardian ran, but it is one that made my heart skip a beat. The morning I took the photos was very cold. Lisa suggested Signal Hill as a location, which was fine. Except, up there it wasn’t just cold, but very windy as well. As she stood on top of that concrete curb, a gust of wind made her stagger. The last thing I wanted was a photo of Lisa Moore falling into the North Atlantic in January.
Croatian word of the day: roman novel
I think a post with a bunch of photo links is in order.
Via swissmiss, there is an interesting flickr collection of photographs called Looking Into the Past.
Boogie, a Serbian photographer currently living in the U.S., has a blog. He is the author of Belgrade Belongs to Me among other things…
Take a look at amazing work of Adolfo Farsari, an Italian photographer with unique access to Japan in the 1880s. His hand-coloured photographs of Japan at the time are quite remarkable (h/t Gizmodo).
There have been several heads of state who also dabbled in photography. Queen Elizabeth II, for example, is a Leica aficionado. Recently, a Croatian weekly (I am not going to called it a newsweekly because the amount of hearsay and gossip published in that thing is quite astounding.) has recently run a story about a collection of photographs taken by former Yugoslavian leader Josip Broz Tito. Apparently, he was quite a passionate amateur photographer. I would love to see what else he produced besides what’s published in the magazine. There are several photos I find interesting including a couple of casual portraits of Croatian author Miroslav Krleža. Click on the first image in the gallery for larger versions.
Above are Change Islands in winter.
Croatian word of the day: amater amateur