Archive for April, 2020

The Longer I Live the More I Have to Worry  //

These days Richard Lewis’s Reflections from Hell (powerHouse Books) seem prescient. The one above very much so. Carl Titolo’s image accompanying Lewis’s reflection is brilliant.

The Vietnam War, Coronavirus, and David Burnett  //

This week the number of deaths from coronavirus in the United States surpassed the number of Americans killed in the Vietnam War. This pandemic took less than three months to reach the number of fatalities that took ten years during that war. A very somber thought. These compelling photographs were taken fifty years ago by […]

Photo of the Week: “Hamatsa Emerging From The Woods” By E.S. Curtis  //

This photograph by E.S. Curtis is of a Hamatsa shaman, possessed by supernatural power, emerging from the woods after many days participating in a secret society ritual. He is a member of the First Nations’ Kwakwakaʼwakw peoples of British Columbia. When we finally emerge from this pandemic many of us may have a reaction similar […]

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