Agosto 2011
Andrea Dei Castaldi What Lies Beneath
Sounds funny, as I was born just a few kilometers from here, but I never spent a night in Venice. That’s what I say while we tighten up our coats and tie our scarves into a knot around the neck, watching our breath go up like smoke against the black sky above our heads. From San Sebastiano we end up disoriented by the tangle of deserted calli as we take to walking briskly as though we...
Robin Schwartz - Amelia’s World
My photographs are drawn from real journeys undertaken with my daughter, Amelia I am driven to depict relationships with animals but the photographs are not documents; they are evidence of the invented worlds that we explore and the fables we enact together. Photography gives us the opportunity to access our dreams, to discover the extraordinary. Animals and interspecies relationships have...
“No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity, but I know none, therefore am...”
– LS 05 | Animals
William Shakespeare, Richard III
Martin Usborne - MUTE: the silence of dogs in cars
When I was four – or maybe a little older – I was left in a car. I don’t know when or for how long, maybe outside Tesco, probably for ten minutes only. The details don’t matter. The point is, I wondered if anyone would come back.
Around the same age I remember seeing TV footage of a dog being put in a plastic bag and kicked. What upset me most was that the dog could not speak. It’s...
Landscape Stories | Issue 05 | Editoriale
Animals
Stooges ‘I Wanna Be Your Dog’ | Cramps ‘Human Fly’ | Pixies ‘Monkey Gone To Heaven’ | Bonnie Prince Billy ‘Wolf Among Wolves’ | Smog ‘I Break Horses’ | Cat Power ‘Werewolf’ | Magnetic Fields ‘A Chicken With Its Head cut Off’ | David Bowie ‘Joe The Lion’ | Louis Armstrong ‘Leap Frog’ | Richard Maxfield ‘A Swarm Of Butterflies Encountered Over The Ocean’ | Steve Lacy ‘The New Duck’...
“The eyes of an animal when they consider a man are attentive and wary. The same...”
– John Berger Abou looking Writers & Readers 1980 