four by meleschnig

Photos by Paul Meleschnig

parallelism

Parallelism ~ Magda Chudzik

three by brian david stevens

Norfolk from Brighter Later

From The Wood

From To The River | Photographs by Brian David Stevens

In his book The Rings of Saturn, W.G. Sebald describes the sea anglers along the shore near Lowestoft; he writes: ‘I do not believe that these men sit by the sea all day and all night so as not to miss the flounder rise or the cod come in to shallower waters, as they claim. They just want to be in a place where they have the world behind them, and before them nothing but emptiness.’

This emptiness was what I set out to observe on my series Brighter Later; of course emptiness can mean many things, but to me it was a space wanting to be filled, a space of optimism and possibilities. Looking out to sea you truly are looking into the future, seeing the weather and the waves that will at some point arrive at the shores of this island, you predict their inevitable, unstoppable approach. You look out rather than look in. ~ BDS

les manteaux arts moderne

Les Manteaux arts moderne. (1965) | Photo: Terence Donovan
Source: NYT :: The Man Who Loved Women, and Cameras

See also, from the archives: elvi

may snow shower

People strolling through a park Finland during a wet May snowstorm, 1968. Photo by George F. Mobley | Source: Nat’l Geo Found

dashed + dashing

on the move ~ Naufal

reade street

Reade Street on the corner of Greenwich Street (1955)
~ Erwin Blumenfeld

packed like sardines

Photo by Henry Jager

plant portraits

From Plant Portraits by Fleur Olby

apartment no. 1

This apartment block in the Iranian town of Mahallat was constructed using the otherwise useless offcuts from local stonecutting businesses.

Stonecutting is the largest trade in the area but is a wasteful process that discards more than half of its produce, so architect Ramin Mehdizadeh of Tehran studio Architecture by Collective Terrain (AbCT) decided to recycle the material and use it as cladding for a building.

The variations in colour, size and texture give a natural pattern to the walls, which angle outwards at intervals to shield small windows from direct sunlight.

Larger windows are screened by timber shutters made from locally milled wood … the shutters help to regulate light and temperature in the apartments at the hottest times of the year.

Source: Dezeen | Photography by Omid Khodapanahi