Next up in our Sound Photography rundown is this photograph taken on Flat Holm Island, in Cardiff Bay. The sun was setting to the west with a glorious golden evening light, while to the east the rapidly-changing weather was bringing in dark storm clouds. The effect was to light up the lighthouse, as if it […]
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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
