Farewell to Meat
Started out centuries ago as a result of a cross-cultural exchange, Carnival is still a way to get in touch with our roots and a chance to get in touch with each other. The [...]
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Buying Child (1987/2020)
When Attila Manek realized that his photo achieved success after more than thirty years since it was taken, he was unaware that a digital version of it had been uploaded to [...]
Where are they now?
Even though the memes don’t change or age, the people in them do. Many of them now bear almost no resemblance to how we have always pictured them. Whether they’ve [...]
This time it’ll be okay
Blindfolded, beaten and tortured for 30 hours by professionals who knew how to inflict pain without leaving marks. That’s what happened to Patrick George Zaki, an [...]
Merry Go Round
So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us. Gaston Bachelard The carousel, the symbol of funfairs, has a special place in the collective [...]
We were better when it was worse
Not a single phone. Only people living the moment. Those were good times! Perhaps, that’d already be a paradox thinking that we could be better in worse conditions. [...]
No country for young men
The country lost another chance to keep quiet. Or perhaps to try to listen, to consider what their young inhabitants had to say. If, on the one hand, it seemed to [...]
Mind the Gap
Margaret goes to the subway every day and sits on the platform, just to hear the announcement recorded by her husband, actor Oswald Laurence, in the 1970s. Oscar’s [...]
Devil’s Haircut
The oldest known depiction of hair braiding dates back about 30,000 years. In ancient civilizations, women’s hair was often elaborately and carefully dressed in special [...]
Tomato
Since its introduction to the European-colonized world, during the 16th century, by the Spanish who encountered it from the contact with the Aztec during their colonization [...]
