In late February of 2020 I traveled home to Pittsburgh to salvage what I could of my grandparents’ lives. After caring for them and their things during their final years and after, my aunt was moving to Florida and giving it all away: furniture and dinnerware; my grandmother’s full collection of Emmett Kelly clown figurines;
Pondering the way that physical objects, like newspapers and photos, degrade over time, and why digital objects won’t fade in exactly the same way.
A photographer set out to capture the misinformation producers in a small town in Macedonia. He wound up revealing uncomfortable truths about his own profession.
“Suddenly before us were just these four massive columns of rain and hail crashing down, all clearly visibly separated which was unreal.”
Evgenia Arbugaeva’s pictures of isolated figures in harsh terrain look recovered from the deep past or icebound legend.