James Mollison's extraordinary series, Where Children Sleep, offers portraits of kids and their "bedrooms" from places around the world. So much to think about these, especially when contrasted with one another. Equality, opportunity, privilege, burden, culture. Fantastic stuff.
The entire series of 56 diptychs can be viewed on Mollison's website.
Santa Monica
Back home
I dream of the water
beyond the break
and wake older
angry at borders
that keep me foreign
and dry.
Did my wretched ancestors
who walked inward
abandoning shorelines
and settling centered
fear the power
tides gift me?
And will my absence
pull from both coasts
to my landlocked city
salt water so deep
as to drown
their evil
guiding star?
— July, 2017, Toronto
Your Call Pulses Through Me With A Glorious Dynamism
I've felt this wave before,
in Havana and Piles, too.
You were with me, then,
and the water senses your absence.
I lay back and conspire with the tide.
The sunlit Santa Monica sky turns black and star-pricked.
I drift, whispering your name,
until I feel your faint but unmistakable touch.
— December, 2017, Santa Monica
Magdalena Wywrot's forthcoming Deadbeat Club title, PETSKA, looks to be fantastic.
Full details on the title are on the DeadBeat Club site.
Gil Rigoulet has an almost overwhelmingly fantastic trove of photos taken in the 70s and 80s in Napoli, Chicago, England, Quebec, and France.
The street was the best window and I plunged my camera uncomplicated by traveling North America, and Europe from east to west. No obligations, no command, just to see the world around me.
Phenomenal work. See more, including his landscapes, Polaroids, self portraits, and more on his site: GilRigoulet.com
The Burn My Eye Photography Collective has some superb street photography categorized by theme. I've provided credit when it's been shared.
Justin Sainsbury
Frederic Le Mauff
Jack Simon
Plenty more on the Burn My Eye website.
Canadian photographer Maureen O'Connor's work is always one of the highlights for me of the Toronto Outdoor Art Fair. If I don't find her booth on my own meanderings, I make a point of seeking it out. I can't leave until I've seen her new photos.
All of the animals in her pictures are live — there's no taxidermy and no posing. The creatures, which to my understanding live in rehabilitation sanctuaries, are brought to the abandoned buildings and allowed to explore.
You can see all O'Connor's work at maureenfaithoconnor.com. The above are all from the Threshold series, but the Inclusion, Departures, and Cuban series are also excellent.
Winners of the 2024 Big Picture Nature Photography Contest have been chosen.
My favorite is one of the runners-up, but I'm biased as I recognize the heron, Glinlid, whom I met in the Dominican in 2019:
Check out all the 2024 winners on the Big Picture site.
Winners from years going back to 2014 are also viewable.
Some nice street photography and portraiture by Brit, Charlie Kwai.
More in the Projects section of Charlie Kwai's site.
