This corner store on Prescott and Bond has seen better days. Today, it’s boarded up and for sale so if anybody knows any stories about it, feel free to share in the comments.
I do want to share with you an NPR story about an English village that refused to let go of their corner store. Enjoy.
Croatian word of the day: selo village
Crazy busy at work with a major event. While I wait for hundreds of photographs to run through Aperture import here is a bunch of photo links.
The photo above is from my recent one day trip to Halifax. It’s too bad it’s crooked, it could have been a nice photo.
Here is an interview with Mary Ellen Mark on her own work these days, why she decided to stick with film and the state of photojournalism (h/t Mark Hamilton).
Photographer John Cyr has a quirky project on the go: he is photographing developing trays used by film photographers.
Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC has an exhibit of Leon Levinstein’s photographs that looks interesting.
And check out this early colour film of London in the 1920s.
Croatian word of the day: crkva church [tzr kva]
I developed another five rolls of film last night – no surprises any more – it’s all recent stuff. I like this photo a lot. It’s somehow such a Canadian thing to do, to go play hockey in the middle of the summer.
I am trying to purge my links-to-blog folder. Here is a set of completely unrelated things.
The first two links come courtesy of one of my favourite websites – kottke.org.
On the day Albert Einstein was to be buried, only one photographer was allowed to witness proceedings, Life Magazine’s Ralph Morse. The photos were not published for 55 years at the request of the family, but they are available now. Check them out.
If you were a dictator, what would your private jet look like? You can take a peak inside the jets of some of the world’s dictators here courtesy of an enterprising photographer Nick Gleis.
Really nice work from various Japanese illustrators at Tokyo Illustrators Society website.
As somebody who photographs corner stores, I really, really, really like these whimsical photographs of small train stations in former East Germany by Schilling Holger.
Don’t miss Stephen Doyle’s unique paper sculptures or Margaret Shepherd’s beautiful calligraphy art.
Croatian word of the day: željeznička stanica train station [zhe lye znee chka stan itza]