I should probably head over to Battery, because by the time the city is done with it, there won’t be much left to photograph…
Story on CBC this morning says that the city has a contractor on standby to demolish portions of the stage and wharf structures damaged in February storms, rather than explore rebuilding the area.
Croatian word of the day: mol wharf
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
Battery a couple of months ago. You can see the damage winter storms caused this past February.
Photo links today:
Check out the website of Indian photographer Prabuddha Dasgupta. All of it is not necessarily my cup of tea, but a lot of it is very interesting. Always good to see the world through non-western eyes for a change. I particularly like the photographs in Personal section under Edge of Faith heading.
You should also check out Claire Martin’s website. She is an Australian photographer and this year’s winner of the Inge Morath Award. Her photographs of Vancouver’s Downtown East Side are very powerful and unflinching – take that as a bit of a warning. I have to admit that I am getting a bit uneasy with the whole Downtown East Side thing. It has been photographed million times and it starting to feel a bit voyeuristic – probably because I have been paying attention and have seen a lot of different work about it. To Canada’s shame, not much is done about it. This country is rich enough that a place like the Downtown East Side in Vancouver should not exist.
As I am working with my colleagues on a first ever reunion of the original Memorial University campus, this story on recently found photographs of British, Canadian and Australian soldiers of the Somme campaign in the First World War has a special significance. Over the past few months, I have lived with the history of Memorial University of Newfoundland and its origins. The university was envisioned as a memorial to Newfoundlanders who died in the First World War. I also had a fantastic opportunity to interview some of the graduates of the university’s original campus. The oldest one was 103 and is the last living graduate of the very first graduating class of 1927. It is a fascinating journey and probably the most rewarding (and in many ways most complex) project I worked on here.
And since this is a Tuesday, here is your Loonie Tuesday movie: this is part one of the documentary about Henri Cartier-Bresson called The Impassioned Eye (parts 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10).
Croatian word of the day: prilika opportunity [pre lee ka]