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Upcoming interview with artist Allan Ellerby

by Tommy Manuel

I dis­cov­ered Allan Ellerby’s work while look­ing for images to accom­pany one of my pre­vi­ous posts. I’m pleased to say he has agreed to an inter­view that will be posted here later, but first, an intro­duc­tion is in order.
Ellerby was born in Hull, York­shire in Eng­land in 1952 and became inter­ested in pho­tog­ra­phy around the age […]

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Carnival Manifesto: Doing away with the trivial and the mundane, at least for a while.

by Tommy Manuel

I came across this a few days ago while look­ing for man­i­festos online. What appealed to me, besides the obvi­ous intent that any man­i­festo seeks to ini­ti­ate a fis­sure in the sta­tus quo, was the mix­ture of seri­ous­ness that typ­i­cally char­ac­ter­ize these pub­lic state­ments and the light-hearted epi­curean qual­i­ties of the carnival.

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New York Times: To Protect an Ancient City, China Moves to Raze It

by Tommy Manuel

By MICHAEL WINES

KASHGAR, China — A thou­sand years ago, the north­ern and south­ern branches of the Silk Road con­verged at this oasis town near the west­ern edge of the Tak­la­makan Desert. Traders from Delhi and Samarkand, wea­ried by frigid treks through the world’s most daunt­ing moun­tain ranges, unloaded their pack horses here and sold saf­fron and lutes along the city’s […]

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