Today’s photograph, taken by Lauren Pond, is from the 2014 Eddie Adams Workshop, an annual gathering of photojournalists in upstate New York, at which participants released balloons in memory of colleagues who have died. Rob Knight was inspired by this image, and created the corresponding sound piece “Caesium”: “I spent a long time looking and […]
Today’s striking image by Lauren Pond is of a trucker chapel in Ohio, USA – she writes: “Truck driver Ben Blackburn participates in Bible study at a mobile chapel at the Lodi, Ohio TA Travel Center in October 2013. Transport For Christ, an international trucking ministry, has placed dozens of these chapels at truck stops […]
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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
