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Berlin, if not travelling. Mostly photography here, and mostly my own.

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Botanischer Garten, Berlin

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Jasper Bastian

From his series A Road Not Taken

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Jasper Bastian's photographs taken between Lithuania and Belarus seem from another century and remind me of Tarkovsky.

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New essay: On photography and generosity

At a time of year when generosity is top of mind, we’re exceedingly pleased to offer this lovely and insightful piece by guest writer Stefan Vanthuyne. 

Check it out and let us know what you think.

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Beara Peninsula, West Cork

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Small forest near Courtmacsherry, West Cork.

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“We often have to explain to young people why study is useful. It’s pointless telling them that it’s for the sake of knowledge, if they don’t care about knowledge. Nor is there any point in telling them that an educated person gets through life better than an ignoramus, because they can always point to some genius who, from their standpoint, leads a wretched life. And so the only answer is that the exercise of knowledge creates relationships, continuity, and emotional attachments. It introduces us to parents other than our biological ones. It allows us to live longer, because we don’t just remember our own life but also those of others. It creates an unbroken thread that runs from our adolescence (and sometimes from infancy) to the present day. And all this is very beautiful.”

Umberto Eco (1932 - 2016, RIP)

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(@C/O Berlin, yesterday)

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Olde Piano Factory, Ripley, Ohio

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A Visit to Ireland 1518

„The country of Ireland, otherwise known as Hibernia, is a country across from Cornwall, about 40 leagues from there, and only an arm of the sea stretches between them. My Lord the Archduke a…

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https://www.nasa.gov/feature/new-horizons-returns-first-of-the-best-images-of-pluto

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"Tulsa". An Essay by Larry Clark (1971)

I was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in January 1943. When I was 16 I started shooting valo. Valo was a nasel inhaler you could buy at the drugstore for a dollar with a tremendous amount of amphetamine in it. We would work up a shot and shoot it. I shot with my friends everyday through high school.

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Nire Valley, Comeragh Mountains, County Waterford, Ireland, 2015

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Lore Krüger

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Can you solve these thirty brainteasers by Walter Benjamin before we post the answers tomorrow?

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Leonardo Da Vinci’s to-do list.

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Cork Beauty & Laser