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Salman Toor (Pakistani, 1983), The Reader, 2022. Oil on linen, 18 x 24 in

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Jonathan Bailey | Vanity Fair (2025)

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Riz Ahmed | Vanity Fair (2025)

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Heydar Aliyev Cultural Center, Designed by Zaha Hadid Architects

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Look through any window, Paloma Salgado Díaz

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Robert Wun Couture 2025

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Alex Consani by Harley Weir for KNWLS x JPG

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Cho Gi Seok

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Photographed by Cho Gi Seok for Vogue Korea July 2023

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David LaChapelle | The Face, 1997

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“Cold Air, Warm Body”. Cynthia Wrobel photographed by Roni Ahn for Tatler Hong Kong February 2023

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The Last Shopkeepers

In the words of the artist Francesco Pergolesi:

Temple guardians of a little vanishing world, brave and full of passion, they valiantly defend the meeting places for human exchange and relationships, set in unpretentious frames, nibbled by the passing of time. As survivors on a tiny damaged raft , they face restlessness and greed, on a dangerous sea that doesn’t care about the past and its traditions, smashing together people and principles, obeying the march of progress.

Before it’s too late I shelter memories smelling of yellow paper, and “Ceci n'est pas une pipe” , like a freshly gathered broad bean listening to the gossip of old pilgrims, religiously sitting on green Formica chairs, conserving cloth in dusty trunks and expert hands. They cut cloth in the dead of night, while I preserve pure white clouds made by an ancient pink oven, as old as time ; work done by glue and saw, buds and sharp prickles, made by a real good morning and good night!

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