A collection of essays on photography and sound documentaries.
Once in a while the world seems to go into a convulsion. World wars, natural disasters, economic recessions, famines and disease outbreaks. Covid-19 pandemic is one of those times. Rennie’s River became my escape route and a place to think about connections between viruses, urban planning, invasive plants and health - our own and our planet’s.
Read MoreIslands are different places. And not just because their geography is compelling with their edges defined by the meeting of the worlds of land and water. Geographer Yi-Fu Tuan saw them as having a “tenacious hold on the human imagination.” They help us imagine worlds that could be, they shape our understanding of the world that is, and provide us with grounds for experimentation, leisure, discovery, confinement, and unimaginable destruction.
Read MoreAnne Buttimer, an Irish geographer, has a lovely definition of what it means to dwell in a place: “To dwell implies more than to inhabit, to cultivate, or to organize space,” she writes. “It means to live in a manner which is attuned to the rhythms of nature, to see one’s life as anchored in human history and directed toward a future, to build home which is the everyday symbol of a dialogue with one’s ecological and social milieu.”
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