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1 week ago | nytimes.com | Elaine Glusac |Alice Zoo

Jet lag can be so demanding. Within an hour of arriving in London, my case led me to a 5.50 pound (about $7) slice of lemon, raspberry and pistachio cake at the cafe in the Victoria and Albert Museum. The museum itself was free and included the unquantifiable payoff of dining in opulent 1868-vintage rooms with arches, stained glass and William Morris wallpaper.

Oct 1, 2024 | nytimes.com | Joshua Barone |Alice Zoo

The sun shone brightly over the downs of East Sussex on a summer afternoon while people trickled onto the grounds of Glyndebourne to hear an opera by Handel. Most of the men wore black tie, and many women were in floral gowns, as they picnicked among gardens and sculptures, and under the shadow of the property's grand, Jacobethan manor house.

Apr 12, 2024 | 1854.photography | Alice Zoo

Known for his portrait and landscape work, Kander has a meditative approach in his London studio – and a profoundly subjective take on making imagesNadav Kander’s Kentish Town studio is bright, with windows on two sides of a large room, its walls made of pale, exposed brick. The feeling is airy and spacious, the surfaces clear.

Nov 1, 2023 | interloper.substack.com | Alice Zoo

If you’re reading this, you — like me — are experiencing the ongoing crisis in Gaza not as a proximate physical reality but as the news: as images and information. Footage and photographs are streaming towards us without end. We’re trying to understand — to feel, to respond to, to take action around — something happening far away, at least in part by means of the shock of these images from the ground. Why think about images at a time like this? Why does this matter at all?

Feb 14, 2023 | 1854.photography | Alice Zoo

Captured over the last eight winters, the images in Southam’s book and exhibition presents serene landscapes animated by the ebb and flow of a bevy of swans “In the middle of a December night a few years ago, I was woken by the phone ringing downstairs,” Jem Southam writes in his new book, Four Winters. His brother, he was told, was in hospital, and the prognosis was not good. Southam drove to see him, and sat with him through the early hours. By late morning, his brother had pulled through.