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Day Seventy of Lockdown

SEVENTY! … … … (or Day Eight of the Third Month) The wind has a fresh breath, it speaks of a new arrangement that we will be let out from lock down, all of Shanghai, will be let out from lock down very soon. Yet we are on the curfew we who have been under […]

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Day 3Thirty of Lockdown No News is … no news

Home Testing, again. Being negative on the test, is good. Being negative about the situation, is not. Who is still able to compartmentalize this? Can you? My beloved bread maker, M. Mouli is deceased. recover the dough mix and bake bread in my Halogen oven – my yeast is getting tired. I’ll have to make a […]

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Day Twenty Five of Lockdown

Today, more parts of Shanghai go into a strict. 5 Day. lockdown. Much of Shanghai is now under emergency orders, and Quarantine. Key areas no longer have incoming deliveries, except for those authorised by the government. Resources are becoming limited and stretched. Here in Huacao, (we are part of the Minhang region) we have been […]

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March 16, 2022

Freedom! It’s a really strange feeling. I am outside, in the street, sitting at a Cafe… and I just want to go back to my apartment.

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Myopia: A Lockdown Journal

I was asked, “Why are your pictures are square, and in black and white?” “They seem so constrained and myopic.” … And that! Is the very reason why. I am on a second floor, on the end of a building. The from the windows is less constrained, myopic, if you like, than it is for […]

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March. 8th. 2022 – Lockdown!

Meilingyuan is under lockdown! I was on the Metro and the message came through that all residents needed to return immediately – there’s been a confirmed COVID-19 contact in the compound. As I approached the street, the Delicious Bakery was being swabbed down – the alleged “Close Contact” had been to the bakery earlier that […]

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MoMA – Seeing Through Pictures

Well today, I finally completed an Online course with New York’s, Museum of Modern Art and I am very happy to have completed it. The course was hosted (delivered) by Cousera who’s Support Services have proved to be outstanding indeed. The course itself was well structured, with ample video resources and written resources. The written resources DO […]

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A Personal Retrospective in Progress.

Soon to come, some new work: a retrospective look at 40 years of personal work, as a survey of Twentieth Century Photography. Exploring representative samples of Twentieth Century Photography as shown in the Encyclopedia of the same name, I will collate examples of my own work that have either a similar direct subject, treatment or […]

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