24 April, 2025
Homeless in Hamilton. Help!
The unhoused population in the city of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada has drastically increased in the last five years. We’re a medium sized city of around 787,000 in 2024 and have ...
19 April, 2025
One Shot (Plus One) Story – All That Lasts
These three bags of rubble are all that remains of a ‘renovated’ building. By chance, though, I took a photo of the building as it was being demolished. The differen...
London was crowned the eighth most expensive city on the planet last year, according to Mercer’s 2024 Cost of Living Index. Still, even in the heart of this priciest place to li...
6 April, 2025
‘Encamisada’ in Vale das Fontes
Vale das Fontes is a Portuguese parish located in the municipality of Vinhais, in the district of Bragança. It has an area of 16,55 km² and a population of 262 inhabitants accor...
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invisible summer.” — Albert Camus Like many places in North America, Ontario is experiencing a particularly ha...
9 February, 2025
Road Kill – MIMA
The Millennium Iconoclast Museum of Art, MIMA, is (and by the time you read this ‘was’) Brussels’ modern art museum. Staging an exhibition by an artist recognised world wide is ...
5 January, 2025
Orwell’s Greenwich – A Photo Essay
‘It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.’ The opening sentence of George Orwell’s ‘Nineteen Eighty-four’ is, like...
28 November, 2024
Welcome to the Gates of Hell
If you were to mention Turkmenistan in conversation to most people you would probably get a blank look, if you did get a flicker of recognition it would probably be followed up ...