Lessons

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.”

Picture:William Klein

Words: Louise Erdrich

Carolyn Griffin

I couldn't help but think of my beloved Harry Callahan when I saw these pictures from Carolyn Griffin. The simplicity sublimated in the daily burdens of life can be so, so beautiful.

Source: Carolyn Griffin

Jessica Lange

Last Tueday I went to the brand new Niemeyer Center to see the much-awaited Jessica Lange's photography exhibition.  Unseen, is arranged in two parts: "Things I see" and "Mexico-On Scene", that except from the use of black and white have nothing to do with each other. Truth to be told there are high quality photos in the show but the whole turns out to be pretty basic. Perhaps it's because as my grandmother would put it "one shouldn't bite off more than you can chew" and as a photographer, Jessica Lange almost choked.

Miss Hedwig

I love the colours in these pictures. They are perfect to etch on the memory as a reminder of the last days of summer.

 
Pictures: Miss Hedwig

Tarkovsky polaroids

I've always thought photography was one of the strongest points in Tarkovsky's films and to my delight I've recently learnt that a book of his Polaroids called Bright, bright day has been published. The name couldn't be better chosen as light plays a key role in all the pictures, giving them an incredibly moving halo of mistery.

Source: Brigh, bright day

Mandy Lynne

Jordan Sullivan

I am still obsessed with the big american road trip.

El gran viaje americano sigue obsesionándome.

Holiday pictures