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Winter 2025 Cover with photo by Lys Arango of 3 coal miners sitting on a bench during lunch

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Strange Gardens
… on ocean health. With a background in political science and commercial photography, Wróblewska lives in the tense space … her work is anthropopressure . When I first read it on her website, the pop in the middle leapt out at me. Her images … ephemeral elegance, vanishing in an instant should the reef die, as reefs have been doing lately at a staggering pace. …
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The Last Days and Afterlife of the San Nicolás Mine
… Soto de la Barca. The demolition was part of the of the decommissioning process of the Naturgy-owned facility, which … many industries, coal was more than just a resource; it embodied a culture and a political tradition. And yet its end … find work, villages saw depopulation. But there was also this other thing happening: Some people decided to stay …
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Dislocation on Pacific Coast Highway
… the murre (or guillemot), an arctic seabird that lays eggs communally on cliffs. The birds recognize their own in this … somehow captured the architecture, the street traffic, and also the uneasy mood of the photographer. We have been to … inches from the traffic streaming by, or the shallow commercial centers hugging the road, too, and then the …
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“This Heart’s Geography’s Map”
… of his death, Whitman sat for photographers, collected and commented on the results, admired certain poses and disliked … He was met by grisly scenes of human carnage–dead bodies laid out on stretchers and “a heap of amputated feet, … well for all he did for me. . . . I liked Bill: he had good points: is bright–very bright.” Duckett sometimes served as …
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Don’t Be a Square
… and slow. Public awareness follows belatedly. Culture comes last. It was in 1856 that Eunice Newton Foote, a … the next and the promise of much grander devastation to come. One would anticipate novels, films, and visual art … in 1959. Five years later, Stanley Kubrick isolated the comic absurdity in the premise of mutually assured …
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It Either Sinks or Floats
… and Cocktail Umbrellas. 2017. To the extent that Ekberg composes portraits of performance art, many of them are also small miracles of timing—freezing the moment between up … has been met with some dismissiveness, depending on the audience—though contempt is a little more surprising. …
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