#esther lin

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Cold Thief Place, Esther Lin

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Young 'n' chunky Clark Connors…

📸Esther Lin

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To Build a Church

The Abbot Suger’s most delicious gambit was to slip off his ring and place it on the altar, then watch his guests, embarrassed, unpin their own brooches as he described how their sacrifice would shimmer in the quarrying of limestone and weaving of tapestries, how they were building the ark that would bear them up from polluted waters. Devotion demands some suffering, after all, a notion dear to my mother, especially on the night she rendered her wedding ring to a church. The next day she asked that I surrender too— my diary—to God. So I placed my brass key and book in our recycling bin and the tenth year of my life vanished. Suger never lost so much—before the next round of lords arrived, he retrieved his ring to sacrifice once more. As for my mother, she died the way she wished: not yet seventy and still radiant in the eyes of men and God.

Esther Lin (The Adroit Journal, January 2025)

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This image by Esther Lin is so powerful. You get a true understanding of Israel Adesanya when you watch his videos in slow motion and zoom in on his pictures. He has laser accuracy like there’s a beam on his opponents. We’re witnessing a special talent in the prime of his career.

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Irene Aldana vs Lucie Pudilová FOTN

Photo credit Esther Lin

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Invicta FC 22: Portraits

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