Food, faith, pain, and communion. From the Paris Review Small, Good Things: Poetry and still life as one.From the Hon. Nancy Gertner, The Media's Reporting On Justice Is Criminal
Image: from Tugboat Press.
From Guernica: Hipstamatic Revolution: "Avoiding the simplistic narratives of Afro-pessimism and Afro-optimism, photographers use photo-apps to represent everyday Africa."
“War/Photography”: A New Look at the World in Conflict Looking forward to reading Junot Diaz's new book.
Grantland is killing it with their (mostly snarky, sometimes earnest) monthly recaps of the NYTimes Vows (including the most Vows-y Vows ever)
From the AV Club: TV Roundtable: Law & Order: Slave to formula, or crackling entertainment?
“Faith is not for overcoming obstacles; it is for experiencing them — all the way through.” - Richard Rohr
2 comments:
Hmm...maybe instead of Afro-optimism or Afro-pessimism, it's just Afro-voyeurism. (Is any of these photographers from anywhere in the continent?)
Or maybe Afro-heroism? (giving self props for living in a non-Western place)
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