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Heat and Dust

Photographer Unknown, (Heat and Dust)

“Shortly before the monsoon, the heat becomes very intense. It is said that the more intense it becomes the more abundantly it will draw down the rains, so one wants it to be as hot as can be. And by that time one has accepted it — not got used to but accepted; and moreover, too worn-out to fight against it, one submits to it and endures.”
― Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Heat and Dust

Jim Lyngvild

Jim Lyngvild, Title Unknown, (Creature of the Winter Snow), Portraiture

Jim Lyngvild, born in December of 1978, is a Danish writer, designer, photographer and the fashio editor of “Ekstra Bladet”, a tabloid newspaper published in Copenhagen. He was educated at the Fashion Design Akademiet in Copenhagen in 2000-2002. In 2018 Lyngvild designed an exhibition about the Viking Age for the National Museum of Denmark.

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Mihail Sebastian: “An Artist, If He is Anything, is an Individual”

Photographer Unknown, (A Casual Pose), Portraiture

“There is doubtless such a thing as a ’national character’. In art, it is the lowest common denominator. The more specific the character, the more commonplace it is. That is why creation always requires overcoming such a character.

An artist, if he is anything, is an individual. But to be an individual means embodying your own truths, suffering your own experiences, and inventing your own style. But these things can only occur by renouncing facility, and the most unfortunate facility comes from these so-called national characters, formed by the sedimentation of collective mediocrity, which lies there ready-made. National character is by definition that which remains in a culture after you have removed the personal effort involved in thinking, the personal experience of life and the triumph of individual creation.”

― Mihail Sebastian, For Two Thousand Years