Emily Sekine

May 13, 2024 | orionmagazine.org | Jill Pelto |Emily Sekine

fromSwimming Lessons: Staying afloat in our flooded futureTHE WAITER SETS DOWN a plain white bowl with a meticulously engineered wall of rice down the middle. On one side, vegetables and meat float on top of a still pool of honey brown curry, which presses against the wall, threatening a deluge. On the other side, emptiness. I pick up my spoon. Slowly, I begin to dig. My attack steadily weakens the wall, grain by grain. Finally, the dam breaks. Curry pours through the rice to the other side.

Apr 10, 2024 | flipboard.com | Emily Sekine

The Piccadilly line will close later this yearThese days the tube doesn’t seem like the old faithful it once was. Over the past months the Underground has been plagued by strikes and station …

Mar 7, 2024 | sapiens.org | Michael Perez |Emily Sekine |Rick Schulting |Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia

Walid has diabetes and lives in Jordan. Throughout his youth, the disease was manageable. He worked and took care of his 13 children without any problems. One day, however, his leg felt strange. He could sense something was wrong and worried he might get gangrene. Walid couldn’t afford health insurance, so he asked several of his sons to take him to a public hospital that offered subsidized care for the poor. When he got to the hospital, the doctors refused treatment.

Nov 9, 2023 | sapiens.org | Kerstin Lange |Emily Sekine |Stephen Nash |Victoria Gibbon

✽The German word for East is Ost. Straightforward enough, one might think. But in the once-divided country where I grew up, the word still carries geopolitical reverberations. In November 1989, I watched the fall of the Berlin Wall on TV from my living room in upstate New York, open-mouthed. East Germans were streaming through checkpoints that had been hermetically closed to them for decades.

Aug 15, 2023 | flipboard.com | Emily Sekine

19 hours agoCartier celebrates its distinctive design codes in this year’s new high jewellery collection, which adds playful twists to traditional motifs from around the world. Jewellery cuts cleanly drawn silhouettes, the better for emphasising a precious jumble of contrasting cuts and stones, with Jacqueline …