A stunning image by Alexandros Kantoros taken in Thessaloniki, Greece of migrating swallows: “Late autumn, swallows gathering all together in a flock, near the edge of the city, before they migrate south. They would gather in an hour or less, before they all decided to fly in a go. While gathering, they all would sit […]
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"As this wave from memories flows in, the city soaks it up like a sponge and expands. A description of [the city] as it is today should contain all [the city's] past. The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of the streets, the gratings of the windows, the banisters of the steps, the antennae of the lightning rods, the poles of the bags, every segment marked in turn with scratches, indentations, scrolls."
- Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
Grand Prix winner and Coup de Coeur winner, Académie Charles Cros
