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terça-feira, fevereiro 16, 2016
London’s ‘Missing Buildings’ by Thom And Beth Atkinson
Over a period of six years the brother-sister-duo has walked all over the city looking for tell-tale signs of these scars that appear sometimes as unexplained vacant spots, and sometimes as ghostly outlines of buildings, that once stood there, on the walls of adjoining properties. These photographs were collected in a recently released photobook called “Missing Buildings”.
The pair identified their sites by simply walking the streets and looking around, rather than relying on historical research.
“We made a decision early on that we would only research sites after making photographs. We were looking for pictures which resonated, rather than systematically recording historical sites,” they told Fotografia Magazine.
"Some of our early pictures weren't even missing buildings, they were these weird apparitions of what had happened or what had been there. It turned out that the majority of the time our instincts were right and they were bomb sites."
"We're at this point now in history where the people that were there to witness it won't be around for much longer," Thom explained to Dezeen. "This is a really crucial point in the story where it's born into mythology because we no longer have eye-witness accounts."
"Some of the sites we'd photographed would be gone a year later, they'd have been filled in, so there's this really strange paradox," he said.
"It's upside down, we're not physically loosing anything as there hasn't been anything there since the war; we're gaining something, but yet these 'missing buildings' disappear for a second time."
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He Prepares These For His Wife After 67 Years Of Marriage Before It’s Too Late
On Valentine’s Day, a 84-year-old Chinese man prepared a surprise for his wife for the first time during their 67-year marriage. “I love you” was shown on the hotel building, while they were having a belated wedding ceremony on the lawn outside.
“We used to undergo lots of challenges and struggles. And we fight and get angry with each other. But we’ve never thought of divorce.” the old man said. One regret was that his wife had never worn a wedding dress and there was no official wedding ceremony in those years. In recent years the 84-year-old wife’s health has been going worse, having to use a wheel chair. And this old man, who hadn’t done anything romantic or said “I love you” before, wanted to give her an official and spectacular wedding ceremony, before it’s too late.
He kissed her and said “I love you”, which is not a common phrase for the older generation in Asian societies. People watching were also moved to tears.
The words shown on the buildings weren’t simply digital display. It was the combination of lights from 220 rooms of the hotel, booked by the successful and wealthy grandson of the old man.
Although there was no official marriage certificate, the love between them has been linking them strongly. And this ceremony, shows us the man’s efforts to make every second count.
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