Category Archives: Photography

-1jandsavon Jeremy Irons (with Sinead Cusack) speaking at the ‘Walk in the Woods’ event at Avondale House (Charles Stewart Parnell’s birthplace) near Rathdrum in Wicklow, this afternoon.

Organised by the Woodland League and the Natural Resourses Protection Alliance in protest at the government’s plan to sell off harvesting rights to Ireland’s 1.2 million acres of public forests for the next 80 years to Bertie Ahern’s mates private interests as an especially soulless part of the Troika programme.

(Thanks marsupial)

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A series of ‘vertical horizons’ of the Hong Kong sky shot from street level and framed by the city’s skyscrapers from a book by French photographer and graphic artist Romain Jacquet-Lagreze.

By eliminating people from his images, Jacquet-Lagreze has taken away the human qualities that normally define such a largely populated city and turned it into an abstract visual reality. The artist’s bio explains that he uses his camera to illustrate his feelings about Hong Kong, inspired mainly by “the geometry of the urban environment and the vivid lives it shelters.

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