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  • A Catalogue of Fears

    Fear of the unknown. Moroccan Sahara. 2024 The stony, desert rubble is punctuated at intervals by the desiccated carcasses of camels. Pausing at one, I adjust my pack, gazing at the flapping hide, the desert’s ultimate memento mori, and judge that only an hour of light remains. I feel intensely alive amidst this desolation, but… →

  • Last hours in Istanbul

    The first proper sunset in ninety days of snow and grey and now a city which looked always to its past flamed with the passion of the present. Colour flashed everywhere: the Bosporus a bottle-green, the sky streaked with crimson and the severe Byzantine battlements tinted a surreal orange by an onslaught of natural light… →