I have only watched a handful of silent films in my life. Although I appreciated the experience of ‘witnessing’ the birth of cinema, I have never been enamoured with the idea. It always lacked a certain spark that could not be conveyed without sound. I could never put the series of motions to the narrative. [...]

I am often in a rush. I do not make eye contact while scurrying to my destination. Few do. The endless throngs of people at the subway station all whiz past me. The endless drone of whirring car engines that permeate my ears, the stench of toxic fumes that engulf my nose - they all [...]

This underground facility is situated within the Solotvyno salt mine near a small Ukrainian village of the same name, close to the Romanian border. It was opened during Soviet times in the 1970s, and operates alongside the Ukrainian State Allergy Hospital which is also located nearby.
The therapy which takes place at Solotvyno is based on [...]

Explosions are beautiful. They bloom like flowers, bits and pieces of a once-solid structure knifing across air - every direction - pacing through in their own trajectories, perhaps fulfilling their sinister potential… Why must this sublime beauty be associated with death?
 

Images by Naoya Hatakeyama.

Although I grew up in a developing nation, I have been fortunate enough to live in residential areas far away from industrial sites for my entire life. I remember, when I was young, the television was inundated with commercials depicting the bright future of a fully-industrialised nation - how lives are made so much easier [...]

Legislation governing mining activity in the United States dates from over 135 years ago. The 1872 Mining Law was ratified in an era when this country sought to develop the West and exploit natural resources without regard to environmental consequences. As a legacy of this antiquated law, more than a century of mining has left [...]

Long before the days of Google Earth, highly skilled airmen who took [these pictures] flew alone, by day and night, in unarmed Spitfires relying on their wits as they risked their lives to capture the images on their plane-mounted cameras. Sometimes their planes were painted pink, as the unusual colour proved very good at hiding [...]

I have not even explored 0.001% of Earth, so perhaps it is best for me, before I fantasise about alien adventures, to venture out into the rest of this Earth… Wanderlust.
 

Images from Vincent Fournier’s Space Project Series.

Our earth occupies so small a space in the great universe. What lurks out there? This thought has been with me for as long as I can remember. Certainly ours cannot be the only planet with living organisms? I will most likely never get the chance in my life to explore the depths, see alien [...]

I was born in Croydon, South London, in 1974. My mother is a Northerner, hailing from Cleator Moor in Cumbria, who met my London-born father when they were both working in the capital. My formative years were spent in the provincial town of Oxted, in Surrey’s commuter belt, while holidays were often spent [...]