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Too Hard to Keep
Jason Lazarus & Ariana Reines
‘There are days I can’t even remember the things I want to know.’
Will They Sing Like Raindrops or Leave Me Thirsty
Max Pinckers & Sonia Faleiro
‘The idea of romantic love for young people is a constructed one.’
LA Women
Douglas Brooker
‘I was bored. That was how it started. Anything I ever did that amounted to anything–or not–has always been the result of being sick of doing something else.’
A Guide to the City of Beirut
Fawwaz Traboulsi
‘In Beirut, a well reveals layer upon layer, generation after generation, of ruins.’
Means of Transport
John Berger
‘Use these photos as means of transport. Ride on them. No passes needed. Go close. Imprudently close. They leave every minute.’
Walled City of Hong Kong
Patrick Zachmann
‘I first went to Kowloon’s Walled City in 1987 with a Chinese friend. I returned there alone in the summer of last year.’
An Escape from Kampala
Wycliffe Kato
‘‘Be brave,’ she said, ‘pull yourself together. What you are about to see is worse than you ever imagined.’ She asked if I knew what Winston Churchill had called Uganda. He had called it the pearl of Africa.’
Mitakuye Oyasin
Aaron Huey
‘Today the Oglala Lakota live in the shadow of Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.’
Inside Intelligence
Anthony Cavendish
‘Good heavens, old boy! It isn't the Russians we worry about; it's the British public that we don't want to know about it.’
Photography: The Paris Intifada
Nick Danziger
Nick Danziger’s photographs of the troubled Paris suburb of Bagneux.
Children’s Section, Gradinari House
Isabel Ellsen
‘Gradinari House is thirty kilometres from Bucharest. One hundred and fifteen children live here.’
Un-Possible Retour
Téa Obreht & Clarisse d'Arcimoles
‘It confirms my belief that the universal exists in particularity.’
Die Hel
David Goldblatt
‘Die Hel is a remote valley in the Swartburg Mountains of the south-western Cape.’
The Atlantic Wall
Ianthe Ruthven
This chain of Nazi fortifications stretching from the Norwegian Arctic to France’s western frontier with Spain is one of Europe’s least acknowledged monuments.
Can Cambodia recover from its past?
Elena Lesley
These photographs accompany Elena Lesley’s dispatch from Anlong Veng, Cambodia.
Emergency Room
Eugene Richards
‘I saw cuts, burns, broken limbs, heart attacks, and then, what's inside the human body.’
Moscow Women
Carola Hansson & Karin Lindén
’Yes - it’s terrifying when a woman speaks. The truth comes out, and a very real pain emerges.’
The Emily Dickinson Series
Janet Malcolm
The Emily Dickinson Series is a collection of collages by Janet Malcolm that appear in Granta 126: do you remember.
Letters to Omar
Edmund Clark
‘His mail became part of the control process his interrogators exercised.’
Literary London
Martin Rowson
Martin Rowson explores historical London through four very different maps.
Good Father
David J. Spear
‘My father was up early. Everything was in place: his books in their bag; each prayer and reading marked; his shoes shined, his shirt and collar, his cassock and cope pressed.’
Pictures from the War
Thomas Kern
‘Kern’s achievement is to have captured this despair, and the confusion of ordinary people forced to live and love and die in the middle of a battlefield.’
Cambodia’s Quest for Peace
Elena Lesley & Joel Rozen
Photographs accompanying Elena Lesley’s dispatch from Cambodia.
Dutch Landscapes
Mishka Henner
‘There is of course an absurdity to these censored images since their overt, bold and graphic nature only draws attention to the very sites that are meant to be hidden.’
The Nuba
Jack Picone & John Ryle
‘They show people denied access to markets that they enjoyed before the war, people impoverished by the fight to preserve their culture and to assert control of their territory.’
A Garden of Illuminating Existence
Kanitta Meechubot
‘Witnessing her death, I understand the meaning of love.’
From Site
Daisuke Yokota
‘The photograph we are left with and the memory of that time do not progress along the same time axes.’
About the Cover
Jake and Dinos Chapman
‘My attempts are mocked by the monstrosities that leer up at me from the page.’
