Lost & Shared: What I’m looking at this week #003
The curiosities, long reads, images and think pieces I’ve enjoyed this week
Lost & Shared issue 3! More esoteric, beautiful and absurdist finds from the fibre optic flip book. It’s a photography-centric selection this week because some exciting and original collections caught my eye.
In personal project news, I finished the last in my Spring Fever series, here, my photo-journal on the colour in the Cotswolds. I’m also working on a few other projects: a celebration of two cows named Salty and Caramel, an essay on the trolley problem and ten thousand other half-finished things.
I highly recommend checking out Danziger’s shots (the British documentary photographer) at the end of this Lost & Shared, they’re incredibly moving.
Enjoy and please share anything you’ve come across recently that you found interesting in the comments.
Here are my latest finds:
Beautiful Photographs of the Repeating Micro, Macro and Mega Patterns in Nature
A selection of images from Australian photographer, Jon McCormack’s new book, Patterns: Art of the Natural World. As the title suggests he’s trying to draw attention to the repeating patterns in nature. To do this he’s used a mix of aerial photography, macro photography, microscope photography and more traditional shots. There are mineral streaks left behind after volcanic eruptions, crystal like formations in caffeine, waterfall rainbows and more. Wonderful concept, beautifully realised.
A Gentle Appreciation of Crisp Culture in Madrid
I love slow journalism on a subject you know nothing about but is covered so passionately and delicately that it draws you in. Abbas Asaria does a deep dive into the Spanish love of crisps (potato chips for US readers). “There’s a wonderful old-school kitschiness to these places too, with their glass and chrome counters, colourful shop signs with old-school fonts and neon lights.”
A Forgotten Institution: A Sunken Fisherman’s Inn in West Berlin
Abandoned Berlin put out incredible work and I keep finding gems on their site. This time they’re exploring an abandoned (100-year-old) fisherman’s inn in West Berlin. As they put it, the Fischerpinte was an “old West Berlin institution, and the best place in the whole city in summer for a relaxing beer, cake, sweets, ice cream or sausage served with a cigarette-smile in the age-old hut, itself a capsule from times gone.” Some evocative words and imagery. I love the image of the little table covered in stacked ashtrays, dried flowers and a little sign that says ‘Privat’.
Some of The Best Images From a Pool of 430,000 Photography Submissions
If you can’t get to London for the Sony World photography awards, Wallpaper have posted a selection of some of the most arresting images. There are some beautifully observed shots here curated from “430,000 submissions from more than 200 countries and territories.” I’ve been to the exhibition a few times and it’s a visual feast. It’s typically held in Somerset House, an experience in itself.
The British Doing British Things Between 1994 - 1999
I love Nick Danziger’s street / reportage photography. He’s just released another set of black and white images from his archive for Cafe Royal (Cafe Royal are photo publishers who do incredible work). I grew up in this era and the first image, here, leaps off the page. An infinity of ladies marking cards in a bingo hall… perms, polystyrene cups and crinkled crisps. It’s a funny, happy, sad, absurd series of very British shots. In his words: “I believe the role of a documentary photographer is to shine a light on places and stories that would otherwise go unnoticed.”
To finish off, an image from my photography archive.
A moment when the universe of hot poultry experienced, if only for a brief time, a glitch in the Matrix.
‘There Are No Hot Chickens’
That’s it for today.
If you missed last week’s edition, you can find that here.
Please do share your own thoughts and discoveries below.