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My apologies for missing last week. I got sidetracked with life and work… and before I knew it Friday morning had come and gone. I’ll try to make up for it here, with a power-packed link dump of some great things I’ve been looking at lately.
While working on this project in Southeast Washington, DC, photographer Andre D. Wagner was Unknowingly Walking in the Footsteps of Gordon Parks.
How George Floyd Spent His Final Hours
A Brazilian photographer captures Black queer joy in Rio’s favelas, photographers capture LGBTQ Life in the African diaspora, 3 Black queer photographers look at love through resistance, desire, and hope, & 21 Queer BIPOC photographers illustrate what “pride” really means.
I love these images and this collab between Irving Penn and Issey Miyake.
After the Fall: What Afghanistan Looks Like Since the Taliban Takeover
I have Photo No-Nos on my bookshelf. It’s a fun read about cliches and our own self-imposed rules for making pictures. This week’s NPPA newsletter had a preview of it in there, and I forgot how funny Josef Koudelka’s “too sugar” comment to Alex Webb was (about photographing sunsets).
This is a fun photo essay about reading outside. And speaking of reading, this Twitter thread is worth bookmarking for future reference when looking for a good book. (Related news: I just started Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart, author of Shuggie Bain — which is one book I’ve recommended a bunch in the last year!)
The Life Moves Pretty Fast - The John Hughes Mixtapes boxed set taps into the soundtrack(s) of my youth. And while I understand why it’s available on 7”, cassette tapes and CDs — the part of me that’s evolved digitally is pissed that I have no way to actually listen to it.
A janitor at a music venue found some incredible fan letters (in the trash).
ICYMI: This is what Richmond’s Robert E. Lee Monument looks like now.