Places
Open
Champs de mars, 7th Arrondissment, Paris. June 2015
There are very few original photos left to take of the Eiffel Tower. So I took one of the crowd, gathered on the Champs de Mars to watch the French Open. The Roland-Garros.
Here
Where is here? Mae Ramphueng Road, Tapong, Thailand. January 9, 2015
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
Oscar Wilde
Here is defined by a road sign. If you can read them.
This little town of Tapong was a few kilometers from our apartment, and yet we stumbled on it by accident by exploring around with our motorcycle. A desolate stretch of road opens up to vibrant little village, with markets, bars, clothing stores, motorcycle repair shops… and the best pizza place between Ban Phe and Rayong.
Float
The Horn
Ferry to Uskudar, The Golden Horn, Istanbul. December 2015
I had melancholy thoughts … a strangeness in my mind, a feeling that I was not for that hour, nor for that place.
Orhun Pamuk
There is a rawness, a base level of emotion along the shores of the Golden Horn, in what was called Beyoglu. In the ten years since I was here last, much has changed (new trams and high end shopping), but much has stayed the same. The smells – of raw sewage and of deep fried fish. The sing song chorus of pomegranate juicers and simik salesmen.
It’s always men, and always old men selling simik. They are of this place, and always have been.