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Once the Metropole or mother city at the heart of a vast global empire, London is now the dominion to a new world power. Subject to the flows of global finance and whims of markets, the city has become little more than an investment opportunity for multinational developers and overseas investors. Metropole records the brutally disorientating effects of this by documenting these legions of new corporate and residential blocks as they are constructed and occupied.
Dafna Talmor’s Constructed Landscapes are the end result of many years of frustration caused by her own photographs. The images are taken in different countries, among which are Israel, Venezuela, the UK and the United States, but their initial purpose was nothing more than personal keepsakes. As Talmor accumulated a large archive, she became increasingly conscious that the photographs don’t show much about the places that they depict and they are just that — pictures of places she once visited. She decided to use them as her source material instead of photographs in their own right in order to create something new and this is how her ongoing series was born.
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Sushavan Nandy, based in Kolkata, focuses on the climate catastrophe, society,
culture and the crises experienced by humankind collectively. He enjoys working
on long-term photographic projects as it allows him to delve deep and explore
issues in depth rather than simply scratch the surface; he has been published by
the Guardian, CNN, New York Magazine, Vogue India, British Journal of
Photography, and many others.
As a young child Nandy experienced the effects of climate change. He lived in
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Three winters ago Anne Erhard’s father unexpectedly passed away on a journey far
away from home. A journey which, like all journeys, he was meant to return from.
His untimely death was distressing to his young daughter but at the same time it
reminded her how fragile human life is — we never know when or how we will meet
our demise. The only certainty is that eventually, we will.
> Death is a question of containment. For a long time, attempts at understanding
felt like trying to empty the ocean
The front yard is as much a metaphor as it is a space. Homes reflect the material successes of their inhabitants, their aesthetic tastes, and concrete the ties that bind family, lovers, and friends. When the shelter-in-place order was announced in March and time came to a proverbial standstill, I turned to my community to make portraits of people in their front yards.
Serhiy Gudak from the city of Uzhorod, Ukraine.
The western region of Ukraine is well known for its hospitality. Nice food and
people. Today, millions of people are moving to the west from the areas which
are bombarded by Russian troops. The road can take 20-40 hours. Most people
travel light - only documents, cell phones, and their loved ones.
A list of answers to the questions "What can I do to help?"
[https://www.mnngful.com/stand-with-ukraine]
Reached Ukrainian friends, checked the sour