Ana Elsner | Forgetting Eyes
Not in a tinplated / beggar’s cup of watery soup / do I perceive your countenance. / Not in a fine white china / dish of consommé…
Not in a tinplated / beggar’s cup of watery soup / do I perceive your countenance. / Not in a fine white china / dish of consommé…
You are up on the sky, / eeping an eye into the Light, / so righteous within, / if only you look at those near and far…
PRIVATE 40, p. 40-41, photo Anabell Guerrero, text Thachom Poyil Rajeevan Buy PRIVATE 40 by Thachom Poyil Rajeevan Beware them who come asking for old shoes. Wearing them one by one from the bigger to the smaller they will walk along the path you walked once, like crossing a lake...
I walked the valley of shadow / touched faces / of fear with eager hands / eagle heart / your words / tasted deliciously tender…
I am to be born today. / But, yesterday / My star turned into a black hole / My tree erished my bird, my animal / All died out…
Three million people have been displaced by the violent conflict in Colombia. Yet after 40 years of civil war and with the second highest number of IDPs in the world after Sudan, the conflict hardly merits a mention in the international media.
Mid way on the main road from Islamabad to Kabul, the contemporary Muslim city of Peshawar, which means “The Place at the Frontier,” remains in many ways a place on the edge, still buffeted by frenetic movement and ceaseless transition.
Buy/Gift PRIVATE 40 his project is an examination of a grey space at the center of the global map. In political terms it ranges from the Iranian-Afghan border to the Pakistan-India Line of Control. In geological terms, it surrounds the Hindu Kush mountain range, where it is met by the...
Buy/Gift PRIVATE 40 oping to find a better life in Europe, every year dozens of men, women and children die while tempting to cross the Strait of Gibraltar on board makeshift crafts, without anybody showing the slightest interest. Hardly twenty years ago, southern European countries like Spain, Portugal, Italy and...
on someone else’s place / it seems to him the land / slings distance way out / the dirt is dead and / the sky seems twisted / the beat of the stones is wrong…
Christophe Agou (Life Below), PRIVATE 40, p. 36-39 Buy/Gift PRIVATE 40 rom 1998 until 2000, the underground world of the New York City subway became a stage for chance rendezvous with commuters from all walks of life – ordinary and mysterious. The sense of enclosure below ground was sometimes oppressive,...
PRIVATE 40, p. 40-41, photo Anabell Guerrero, text Thachom Poyil Rajeevan Buy/Gift PRIVATE 40 single person and what they wear can be considered like a continent in two senses, the first private and the second historical. What a person’s physical presence contains for someone intimate with that person may be...
have been working on a photographic project dealing with memory since 1989. Every report leads me to places full of the history of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire where stories from my imagination took place. After the 1988 earthquake in Armenia, humanitarian help was for me the way to...
My photographs are flying pages of a photographic revue written every day in concentric circles from the limits of my garden fence up to the boundaries of the cities where the journey leads me. I started the diary in 1983 with “le journal de campagne en Matheysine” a series later pursued by “Journal de Bretagne”.
