Excerpt from Anaïs Nin’s ‘House of Incest’.
Image of Hotel Hotel Meandering room number 104 shot by Ross Honeysett.
Adam and Amy in the reception wardrobe, shot by Scottie Cameron
Adam and Amy Coombes (of Kloke) made the Hotel Hotel wardrobe.
The brief was initially a challenging one as we didn’t want a uniform per se because of, amongst other things, the hierarchy uniforms tend to evoke.
They came up with a beautiful multi-form wardrobe that can be worn in different ways according to the individual’s character. Each piece is an unstructured and loose-fitting garments made from natural materials chosen for the way they make you feel – Japanese cottons, linens, cotton-linen blends and cotton-ramie blends.
In 2001, through a grant from the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat, Gerry Johansson (b. 1945, Sweden) travelled to the inaccessible and distinct landscape of Antarctica on a research trip for two months. With him on the journey he had a large-format camera and his fearless curiosity. The series of photos eventuate in an unusual reality and relevant perspective. They capture the astonishing non-distance relationship between physicality and nature.
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An exploration into the complexity of Israel and the West Bank, as place and metaphor, through the eyes of 12 internationally acclaimed photographers, each of whom use photography to ask essential questions about culture, society and the inner lives of individuals. The photographers, all outsiders to Israeli and Palestinian society, represent an array of nationalities, cultures, and visual grammars. They are Frédéric Brenner, Wendy Ewald, Martin Kollar, Josef Koudelka, Jungjin Lee, Gilles Peress, Fazal Sheikh, Stephen Shore, Rosalind Solomon, Thomas Struth, Jeff Wall and Nick Waplington.
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Until tires burned on the Maidan, Ukraine was a blank spot on the map on the margin of Europe. The Maidan – symbol and location of month-long civil protests – marks a new era which the authors capture in words and images. In 2012/13 the photographer Miron Zownir and Kateryna Mishchenko, a Ukrainian writer and translator, visited the Ukraine to explore everyday life there from its margins. Zownir photographed drug addicts from Poltava, homeless people at Kiev’s main station, street children in Odessa and Chernivtsi and the inhabitants of several Roma camps. Mishchenko’s sensitive texts and Zownir’s close-up images document the profound fault lines in Ukrainian society, in which the harbingers of revolution can already be felt.
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This new volume from swiss photographer Philippe Fragniere merges and extends the tropes of landscape photography, abstract formalism and a playful compositional logic sidling the contemporary still-life to weave together one of most vibrant series of the year. Coupled with incredible materials, production and design – which includes a series of reverse-out gatefolds – it is a joyous anomaly and one of the most stunningly realised books we’ve seen.
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A journey into an interior, upriver, towards an enigmatic hinterland. At any one instance, Matthew Porter sets up correlations between disparate images, configured on each page like islands in an archipelago, clusters which form their own, indigenous subjects. Short texts, placed at intervals, reveal the connective tissue binding varied subjects – Jane Fonda and the Vietnam War, the Hawaiian Island of Kaua’i and Hollywood. What interests Porter is the legacy of the photographic image, and its capacity to reach across history, to make intelligible to us what we already know, or, encountered at the right moment, that which we could not otherwise know.
Buy HereI am searching for the gaps people have not spotted, for the clues they have missed….
Excerpt from Theodore Zeldin’s ‘An Intimate History of Humanity’, page 13.
Image of light and shadows at James Turrell’s ‘Within Without’ installation at the National Gallery of Australia shot by Lee Grant.
Claire Johnson by Lee Grant
Sam and Claire Johnson run the free range farm that supplies Hotel Hotel.
Sam and Claire Johnson of Boxgum Grazing, live at Windermere, a 1500 hectare multi-generational property near Young on the south-west slopes of NSW.
After becoming frustrated with the reality of commodity markets, where food production is dominated by large companies churning out a generic product, Sam and Claire chose to pursue a direct relationship with their customers, mostly through markets or directly to the kitchen door of restaurants.
With a transparent line of sight from the paddock to the plate, they supply direct to people who want excellent food, are concerned about the consequences of “industrial food” and understand the vital connection between healthy land and healthy food.
Like the name suggests – old school. Super simple. But a goodie.
Put all your ingredients into a short glass.
Add ice.
Stir well.
Garnish with a flamed orange peel.
How to flame an orange peelCut a strip of fresh, firm orange peel. A thicker piece of peel is easier to squeeze over a lit match.
Light a match; hold the lit match 15 cms or so above the glass.
Hold the orange peel skin side down, about 5 cms above the lit match. If your peel goes black, you’re too close.
Squeeze the peel over the lit match to spray the peel’s oils through the flame and into the glass.
Rub the flamed peel around the rim of the glass. Drop the twist into the drink.
Excerpt from Terry Pratchett’s ‘Small Gods’.
Image of Boxgum Grazing farm in Young, NSW, shot by Lee Grant.
