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Photo of the Day: Lifeby Marcin Trojanowski

Photo of the Day: Lost identity by Marcin Trojanowski

Finally, my friend put together a full 25-minute VLOG of the whole adventure into this flooded abandoned Titanic-like bank vault. CLICK HERE to check it out!

Crumbling ‘O’

london, oct ‘18

Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia, USA

Belchite, Aragon, Spain

Between August 24 and September 7, 1937, loyalist Spanish Republican and rebel General Franco’s forces in the Spanish Civil War fought the Battle of Belchite in and around the town. 

After 1939 a new village of Belchite was built adjacent to the ruins of the old , which remain a ghost town as a memorial to the war.

Carlos Santero Photography

Krasnodar Exhibition Center, Chistyakovskaya Grove Park, Russia

1012 N. Main Street, Fort Worth, Texas, USA,

In 1921, Fred Rouse, a Black packinghouse worker, was brutally lynched in Fort Worth, Texas in front of a crowd of over 100 onlookers. He was first assaulted with iron bars by a mob of White union workers, who accused him of breaking their strike. 

Then the White mob pulled him out of the hospital where he was receiving treatment and killed him. Last year, a century after his death, the Equal Justice Initiative, with the help of Rouse’s grandson, created a memorial for the slain man.

Now, Fort Worth is again reckoning with its racist past as the former Texas headquarters of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is being transformed into the Fred Rouse Center for Arts and Community Healing. The initiative is spearheaded by the Texas arts nonprofit Transform 1012 N. Main Street, which purchased the building in 2021. The center is expected to open in 2025.

Photo Ken Sparks; courtesy Fort Worth Camera Club and Transform 1012 N. Main Street.

Text Courtesy of Hyperallergic

At Kloster Allerheiligen, Germany,

Joern Henn Photography

“Fenomenologia della Fine” (Phenomenology of the End),

Nicola Bertellotti Photographs

Rebecca Skinner Photography

Rebecca Skinner, “Daydream”

“Old Industrial,” Pier Iceland,

Mario Calma Photography

“Sand Castles,” Spain,

Markel Redondo Photography

“Palazzo” by Gina Soden

From the “Decadenza” series.

‘Concrete Mirrors’

Concrete Mirrors deals with the iconography of space conquest during the 60s, back to a climate of suspicion and paranoia linked to the cold war. Presented as a fake photograph-documentary, this project puts together three corpus of images of different nature and status, combining types of reality, these are documents, and virtuality, those are places.

David de Beyter Photography

I chime in with a
“Haven’t you people ever heard of closing the goddamn door?”

L’ altro giorno sono andato alla miniera di Ribolla. Nel 1954 un’ esplosione provocò la morte di 43 lavoratori. L'episodio scosse molto Luciano Bianciardi, scrittore, da Grosseto. Insieme a Carlo Cassola stava studiando la condizione dei minatori della Maremma.

Sul tragico incidente il Bianciardi scriverà il suo romanzo più famoso: “La vita agra”, che oltre ad essere un atto di accusa contro la scarsa sicurezza sul lavoro, è anche un lucido resoconto sugli aspetti negativi del cosiddetto boom economico.

“Poiché l'impresa non era abbastanza redditizia, pur di chiuderla hanno ammazzato quarantatré amici tuoi, e chi li ha ammazzati oggi aumenta i dividendi.

Tutti questi sono i sintomi, visti al negativo, di un fenomeno che i più chiamano miracoloso, scordando, pare, che i miracoli veri sono quando si moltiplicano pani e pesci e pile di vino e la gente mangia gratis tutta insieme. Mangiano e bevono a brigate sull'erba e appena buio, come capita capita, fanno all'amore.”