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LOST IN BURMA
9 years ago
PROLOGUE Like most, I suppose I first planted glimpses of Burma in my mind via Rudyard Kipling and George Orwell. But my enduring interest in the country was a bit more indirect than that. As I've mentioned a few times before on this blog, I've been captivated by Southeast Asia ever since I first saw Apocalypse Now. As silly as this might sound, that movie changed my brain. I saw it when I was ab[...]

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THE FOG OF WAR
10 years ago
Marc Wilson: "Since 2008 I have been researching, recceing and shooting the photographs that make up The Last Stand, which aims to document some of the remaining physical remnants of war in the 20th century, along the coastlines of the UK and Northern Europe. These man-made objects and zones of defence now sit silently in the landscape, imbued with the history of our recent past. Some remain[...]

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BURNING MAN 2014: MAKE IT RAIN
10 years ago
PROLOGUE This year’s Burning Man was a profoundly different experience for me, mostly because I made a conscious effort to focus on the collective camp experience rather than my own personal existential bug out. I also only took a handful of photos, choosing instead to live in the moment rather than document it. Both of these decisions proved very rewarding in their own way. THE LONG AND SHOR[...]

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WANT TO JOIN MY JUNTO?
10 years ago
This past August, as I often do around that time of year, I found myself sitting in the middle of the Nevada desert contemplating existential questions with like-minded music makers and dreamers of dreams. Burning Man has become my week-long New Year’s Eve - the point where the new year begins and I look back at the last 12 months and my life and my place in the grand scheme of things. This[...]

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JEAN DE POMEREAU: LESS IS MORE SNOW
10 years ago
Wonderfully minimal photography of Antarctica from Jean De Pomereau, who I came across on butdoesitfloat. "For me, Antarctica is an object of continued visual and intellectual fascination : A wilderness that, however much it is scrutinized and deconstructed, remains unmoved in its glacial quietude, its penetrating silence, and its ability to draw us, one degree at a time, toward the essential." [...]