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FORMAT International Photography Festival announces 2021 theme
“If you don’t control your mind, someone else will” – Barbara Kruger
We can be in control, out of control, beyond control. Control can be passive as with a remote control or progressive as in birth control. It can offer science a control group and be an expression of power as in command and control.
We all seek to control our own lives while resisting control by others. Control has come to denote power and oppression yet we want to “take back control”.
We live in a transformative time as the COVID19 virus challenges our way of life, our economies and potentially our politics. Political control through lockdowns may have saved lives but mistrust of government propaganda has led people to take to the streets to march against the old order and protest against the prescribed colonial histories. What will the “new normal” look like?
“Who controls the past controls the future:
who controls the present controls the past”
George Orwell
We invite you to take part in FORMAT21 by entering the Open Call with work that looks at CONTROL. We welcome a wide range of interpretations of the theme and look forward to being challenged by your ideas and approaches.Send us your projects that involve archives, documentary and conceptual photography from all image-based genres including VR, moving image, performance and multi-media.Both individual artists and collectives are invited to submit their work and we also encourage curators to put forward proposals based on the theme.
Open Call details:Advisory Jury
Erik Kessels (Netherlands), Gwen Lee (Singapore), He Yining (China), Gemma Marmalade (UK), Brian Griffin (UK), Wang Peiquan & Isabella Xueke Wang(China), Azu Nwagbogu (Nigeria), Wang Baoguo (China), Fiona Shields (UK), Tanya Habjouqa (Jordan), Skinder Hundal (UK), Simon Bainbridge (UK), Tanvi Mishra (India), Emma Bowkett (UK), Anna Kucma and Stella Nantongo (Uganda), Louise Fedotov-Clements (UK), and MacDonaldStrand (Gordon MacDonald & Clare Strand) (UK)Awards, Prizes and OpportunitiesAll participants selected to exhibit will receive
A FORMAT21 bursary
Inclusion in the FORMAT21 exhibition programme
Featured in, and a copy of, the FORMAT21 special edition festival catalogue
Featured on the FORMAT21 website
10% off tickets for selected events at FORMAT21
20 reduction off the FORMAT21 International Portfolio Review fee
FORMAT21 Award, of £2000
The Genesis Imaging Award of £1000 for print and framing services
RPS Award selected by a RPS Honorary Fellow; a feature and interview in the award-winning RPS Journal; a mentoring session (online) with an honorary Fellow of the RPS matched to the award recipient’s photography, plus one year’s free RPS membership
The Spectrum Imaging Award of £750 in printing services
Everyone who applies will receive
Visibility with the FORMAT21 international jury and FORMAT curators
The opportunity to be featured on the FORMAT Festival curated Instagram feed
Early Bird: €17 (ends 23rd August 2020, 11pm GMT)
Standard: €23 (from 23rd August, 11pm GMT)
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin 2021 call for entries
The call for entries for Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin 2021 is still open until July 31, 2020. Major event dedicated to contemporary practices of moving image, the next Rencontres Internationales will be held in Paris in February 2021. The event offers every year a curated international programme gathering works by internationally renowned artists and filmmakers, along with works by young artists shown for the first time.
Any individual or organization can submit one or several works. The call for entries is open to cinema, video and multimedia works. There is no restriction for length nor genre. Any submission is free, regardless of geographical origins.
Film and video
► Video / Experimental video
► Fiction, exp. fiction / Short, middle and full length
► Documentary, exp. documentary
► Experimental film
Multimedia, expanded media
► Video installation, multimedia installation
► 360° video, VR, AR, XR art
► Multimedia concert/performance
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Submissions are open until July 31, 2020.
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Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin offers a forum for reflection and discovery dedicated to pratices of contemporary moving images. It introduces guests from all over the world: artists, filmmakers, institutions and emerging organizations, giving us a picture of an on-going creation, of new issues raised by the evolution of the production methods and ways to present new works, and of the different emerging artistic and cultural contexts.
Its programme reflects specificities and convergences of artistic practices between new cinema and contemporary art, explores emerging media art practices and their critical purposes, and create a necessary time during which points of view meet and are exchanged.
The event aims at presenting works to a broad audience, at creating circulations between different art practices and between different audiences, as well as creating new exchanges between artists, filmmakers and professionals.
It seeks to contribute to a reflection on our contemporary culture of image via a compelling programme opened to everyone.
Theme: Back to the streets
Place: shop windows of Algorta, Getxo
Collaborators: Algortako dendak and Basque Government
DEADLINE: AUGUST 2
The popular participation of GETXOPHOTO is a space open to people, professional or amateur, who would like to participate in the Festival sending their potos about the theme proposed in each edition. The result of it is a diverse and rich mix of styles.
This call revolves around the theme Back to the streets, that is, how to return to normal life after the confinement to which we have been subected due to Covid-19. We are looking for images related to the uses of the public space as an updated place for meeting, enjoyment, play or protest. We want each participant to send us what it is considered to be the best image in relation to these ideas.
Everyone. All those who wish may participate: interested, amateur or professional photographers, sending only one image per participant. If you are a child, with the permission of your parents.
To participate you have to fill out the registration form and send your image to email@example.com. The photograph must be a file in .jpg format with a minimum resolution of 1024 x 682 pixels and a minimum weight of 2 MB.
All the photographs received will be edited in a video that can be seen on the web during the entire month of the Festival and 41 of them (selected by the organization according to the suitability of the format and place of exhibition) will be displayed in the windows of some Algortako Dendak shops: Adore, Algorta Centro Veterinario, Amaren, Amets, Bea Moda y Complementos, Berezi, Calzados Vito 52, Centro Diétetico, Cerebrito Pérez, Conformata, Croissanterie Getxo, Eko Denda, Ferretería Elorri, Flores Arantza, Foto Ricardo, Fresa Decoración, Her, Ilestimakeup, Iñaki Bi, Irati, Kala, Kantxa Kirol Moda, Librería Itxas Ikus, Librería Zugatzarte, Mabe, Mercería Maite Lencería, Mi mundo de azúcar, Next, Óptica Algorta, Oso, Peke Shoes, Peluquería Itziar Olabarria, Peluquería Marsun, Reformas Mareva, Snoopy, Supersonido, Teima, Tuink, Uranga Moda, Ytaluca, Zapatería Vázquez.
As a novelty in this edition, the Algortako Dendak Association will select the one that it considers as the best photograph made by an author from Getxo and will award a prize consisting of a € 100 voucher to be consumed among the participating shops of the association.
In addition, for second consecutive year a guide will be published where the selected images and the shops where they will be placed will appear.
The deadline for receiving images is from June 24 to August 02, 2020 The winners will be published on Thursday, August 10, 2020
In collaboration with LensCulture, KAUNAS PHOTO festival announces an Open Call for its 17th edition, inviting photographers to propose their works and offering exhibiting opportunities as well as participation at New KAUNAS PHOTO STAR Award, consisting of a solo exhibition at the largest photography gallery in the Baltic States, Kaunas Photography Gallery and a 2500 EUR monetary prize. Open Call provides opportunities to be selected to the festival exhibition and projection program. All exhibiting artists, selected via KAUNAS PHOTO STAR Open Call will be offered artist fees.
KAUNAS PHOTO festival opening events will start on September 3, 2020 with KAUNAS PHOTO STAR Exhibition. Festival’s events and outdoor exhibitions will run until the end of October.
Even if we are already halfway through the year, this article posted on May 25th at PHmuseum was called “10 African Photographers to Watch in 2020”.
So what? Let’s repost it anyways, because the timing could not be better …
On the occasion of Africa Day, we asked Africa is a Country‘s contributor Drew Thompson to highlight 10 artists from the continent we should follow and support this year.
Founded by Sean Jacobs in 2009, Africa is a Country is a site of opinion, analysis, and new writing started as an outlet to challenge the received media wisdom about Africa. Drew Thompson is the photography section contributor of the platform and Africana Studies Director at Bard College, read his words to discover more about the selected photographers and their practice.
Working between Portugal and parts of Portuguese-speaking West and Central Africa, the Lisbon-based artist uses photography and video installations to model and interrogate the complex historical and architectural spaces that the descendants of formerly colonizing and colonized populations in Africa and the Diaspora occupy. Through a combination of storytelling and reenactment, she introduces still and moving images that allow for a visualization of the transmission of history along with the forms of looking at self and others that mark documented spaces.
Currently based in Johannesburg, South Africa at the famed Market Photo Workshop, the Egyptian photographer uses a highly-trafficked tram in Alexandria as her photographic backdrop. In ways strikingly similar to the late South African photographer Santu Mofokeng’s 1986 series “Train Church,” she photographs the intimate spatial and personal relationships commuters enter in order to travel. Seemingly invisible to her sitters, she looks outside and through the tram’s windows, giving form to passengers’ stolen glances, unsaid thoughts, and the conversations overheard. Here, daily life is about onetime moments of escape and reprieve.
How do you photographically tell the story of Nigerian female students who have been kidnapped by armed militias, and leave behind no visual trace. How do you photograph daily life within a space characterized by such violence? Elements of disappearance and recovery characterize the creative process of Rahima Gambo whose multi-media installation “A Walk” involves sculptures, collages, and still photographs. Drawings that resemble tree branches and plant stems provide new lines of sight by uniting and separating the torn photographs, thereby reinforcing the imaginative meanings mapped onto photographs and the memories that photographs impart.
Eric Gyamfi adamantly resists the notion that he photographs marginalized LGBT+ groups in Ghana. Instead, his photographs embrace and showcase highly-stigmatized and misrepresented aspects of sexuality and create a much-needed archive of people whose daily lives are cast to the shadows of history. His most recent work involves the layering of two photographs, one of himself and the other of the American composer Julius Eastman, and considers how the look and form of photographs change over time.
The childhood memory of seeing a dead body profoundly marked the South African photographer who grew up in shebeens, an informal social establishment. He disassembles and reassembles the photographic surface first by re-photographing elements of printed images, and by marking prints in obscuring and defacing ways. Aspects of his body appear intermittently throughout the series, thereby problematizing notions of self-portraiture. In the process, he mobilizes photography as a tool of healing and references personalized and fragmented histories of trauma and violence.
Born in Angola and having lived in Portugal without the privilege of citizenship, Jasse creates photographic archives out of largely found images with the aim of questioning the place of black populations in white settler rule. His experimentation with film printing processes and screen printing expose the gaze of colonizing populations and the normalizing effects of the images they viewed. His latest collages highlight the tensions between histories of colonization and independence in Congo’s Katanga province.
Photography is intensely personal for Lubondo whose father was a photographer. Coming off her participation at the 2019 Lumumbashi Biennale, she stages her own historical memories as well as those of the people of Congo. In “Imaginary Trips” (2016), she recreates the journeys of people and the activities they performed in specific spaces, like train cars and classrooms. Lubondo actively photographs herself as a participant in these explorations of Congo’s history, and, in doing so, offers a fresh and enlightening perspective on the moments of disappearance that are formative to the making of historical memories.
Far too often, fashion photography is an underrecognized genre in African photography. Barbara Minishi takes her cues from carefully constructed sets in order to showcase her clients’ rich sartorial designs. Her deftness at photographing her sitters from striking angles under stark lighting makes fiction become reality. The stories she tells through her colorful pictures are playful and mystical.
Exile is a condition in which a person is separated, or broken apart, from a place, and Shanan’s series “Exile” involves trying to catch glimpses of circumstances and possible feelings of exile in Algeria. While sentiments of alienation and displacement can be intensely felt, we cannot see how they appear in the moment; Shanan explores this concept. By picturing scenes people deem unworthy of photographing or are not in a position to photograph themselves, notions of belonging appear ambiguous and unclear.
In her early body of work “Even this will pass” (2013), Silvestri focused on the experiences of Eritrean migrants to Great Britain. Rather than showing the faces of her sitters, she blurs their images and maps the routes they travelled through dots and lines. Almost in complete opposition to the fear many of her sitters confront with being photographed, in the recurring series “the Black History Month” (2018 and 2019), Silvestri presents an untitled and collective portrait of black existence—the often undepicted side of migration that exposes the identities not afforded to black migrants by nationality or citizenship alone.
Drew Thompson is a contributor at AIAC and serves as an Assistant Professor and Director of Africana Studies at Bard College. He recently authored, Filtering Histories: The Photographic Bureaucracy in Mozambique, 1960 to Recent Times (University of Michigan Press, 2021), and is currently at work on a book about the history of the Polaroid in Africa.
This is a repost of an article from the very useful resources provided by filmmaker and cultural activist Benoît Labourdette . The article is also available in French on his website.
What methodology should be adopted to build cultural projects that have the capacity to tame uncertainty and thus become more deeply rooted in their objectives? Methodological proposal, based on the thesis of Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the philosophy of François Jullien and the psychological studies of Olivier Houdé.
Report on the state of the cultural sector post-Covid-19
It would be salutary, a fortiori after the Covid-19 epidemic in 2020 which led to an extremely destructive containment for the cultural professions (among other sectors of society), to question the methodologies in order to envisage being able to make cultural projects more antifragile in the face of uncertainty.
During this period of confinement, there have been many very inspiring cultural innovations, which are still going on: film festivals that have reinvented themselves online, remote theatre projects, collective dance or music via videophony, calls for graphic, photographic, cinematographic creation, etc.
So, is everything all right? Everybody has resisted ? I’m not sure that this is the opinion of a theatre company whose tours for the next two years are being jeopardized by the cancellation of the Festival d’Avignon, the theatres, concert halls and cinemas empty for long months, the artists leading the very many artistic practice workshops cancelled, the authors, publishers and booksellers… The State and local authorities intervened by extending the unemployment insurance for temporary workers in the entertainment industry for one year, by setting up specific aid for the performing arts, cinema, plastic arts, music, museums, publishing, etc… These were indispensable supports, it is the role of the common good. They were probably not sufficient in France, Germany for example having affirmed the centrality of the cultural sector by supporting it to the tune of 50 billion euros after the confinement (in France it is about 100 times less). But what about the causes of what appeared to be an extreme fragility in the face of health contingencies? And the next crisis, unpredictable, will be of a different nature.
I propose, in 6 steps, definitions of concepts that will serve as solid support, in my opinion, for antifragile methodological paths in the cultural sector, i.e. that allow projects to be able to exist and even strengthen themselves in situations of uncertainty or intense stress.
1. Risk prevention: a limiting belief
The first idea that comes to mind is the risk prevention approach: trying to predict everything that can happen, based on past experiences. For example, foreseeing that a new epidemic could occur, and therefore having already prepared distant alternatives for all cultural projects. Just as in a film shooting plan, the unpredictability of the weather is anticipated by a “Plan B” of shooting indoors nearby in case of rain. Or, for an outdoor event, folded barnums are always ready to be deployed in case of bad weather.
This risk prevention, while necessary and very useful, does not protect against the unpredictable. It only prevents the predictable. It is important, but not sufficient. Risk prevention presents itself as reassuring (“We have foreseen everything”), which is false: it is impossible to foresee everything. And it is infinitely rare for the past to repeat itself identically.
The reality is that we live in an uncertain world, in which what will happen and destabilize us is precisely what could not be foreseen. We saw this at our expense during the Covid-19 crisis, which weakened the whole world, hitting the weakest hardest. What we can only admit after 2020 is that the world is uncertain and certainly promises unpredictable surprises! It would be salutary not to forget this lesson.
Let us therefore assume the obvious: it is absolutely impossible to predict everything. But then, how can we prepare for the unpredictable? This is the difference between the risk prevention attitude, which is limited to what it can imagine, and the antifragile attitude, which prepares for the unimaginable, only to come out of it stronger. This thesis may seem very theoretical, not very “realistic”, because how to tame the unknown, the impossible, the unthinkable? However, intuition makes us feel that this would be the best way. But what is it concretely, and how to make a cultural project antifragile?
2. Definition of antifragile, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a former trader, is today a writer, statistician and essayist specialising in the epistemology of probability (i.e. the critical study of the subject of probability). He is one of the very few people to have anticipated and warned about the extent of the financial crisis of 2008, for example. His atypical thinking and his critical stance seem to me to be a solid support to nourish reflection in the field of culture. Let’s first discover the concept of antifragility, before moving on to implementation paths, adapted for the cultural field.
Just as the human body grows stronger as it is subjected to stress and effort, just as popular movements grow when they are suppressed, so living things in general develop all the better when they are confronted with factors of disorder, volatility or anything that might disturb them. This faculty to not only take advantage of chaos but to need it in order to become better is the “antifragile”, like the ancient Hydra of Lerna, whose heads multiplied as they were cut off.
Antifragile, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2018 (back cover).
Indeed, these words make us dream: who wouldn’t want us to be strengthened by hardship? Who wouldn’t want to be able to put Nietsche’s aphorism “What doesn’t make me die makes me stronger” into practice for their cultural projects? But isn’t that a bit theoretical and utopian? The Hydra is a myth, not reality… On the other hand, concerning the human body, our personal experience validates Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s hypothesis, because we can see that the human body is strengthened when it is subjected to stress, within a certain limit: physical exercise, vaccination, fasting… among other examples.
The point here is not to question the importance of preventing known risks. Of course, we must be prepared for the obvious risks that we know about: supervising children crossing the street, having national stocks of masks, etc. Let’s not confuse antifragility with inconsistency. But we must not give in to the naive belief that risk prevention would protect us from everything. On the contrary, the excess of forecasting and risk prevention, seen as the only horizon in organizational decisions, reassures us, but paradoxically is a factor of great fragility. Why is this? Because we believe we are protected from everything, so we lower our guard on a deeper vigilance, intrinsic to the projects themselves. Thus, in good conscience, excessive prevention can paradoxically weaken projects, perhaps even more than before the widespread practice of risk prevention since the early 2000s. Why is this so? Let Nassim Nicholas Taleb explain it to us very simply:
We have never had as much data as we do today, yet we are more unable than ever to predict. More data — paying attention to the colour of the eyes of the people you meet when you cross the street, for example — can lead to missing the essential — the big truck coming across the street, in this case. When you cross the street, you’re eliminating data, except for data that could be a critical threat. As Paul Valéry wrote: There are many things to ignore in order to act.
Antifragile, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2018 (page 372).
Of course we can only agree. But then, what are the relevant facts to remember, and how do you go about taking a antifragile path? What exactly are we talking about? Here is a first, very simple example of antifragility. It is not a model, it allows us to start grasping the concept in terms of concrete action :
A do-it-yourself system and a test-and-error method would have the attributes of antifragility. If one wishes to become an antifragile, one must put oneself in the “fault-loving” situation — to the right of “fault-hating” — by making faults numerous and not very damaging.
Antifragile, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2018 (page 34).
Here is a table (page 36) that summarizes this example:
I hate mistakes
Spiteful mistakes are just information
Worship of mistakes (since they’re light)
We are beginning to perceive, I think, that antifragility is about a method of designing projects, a certain approach to work, to development, to construction, to the way we relate to the public. But then, should we only do “do-it-yourself” cultural projects, i.e. without any real artistic project, not very fragile because they are not very ambitious? On the contrary, it is thanks to the highest artistic standards that we will be able to build cultural projects that are antifragile, whether they’re “small” or “big”, as we will now discover.
3. Cultural Policy Missions
By the way, what is the framework for the implementation of cultural projects in France? Cultural policies, and therefore funding frameworks, have for mainspring the development of artistic creation, its dissemination and its practices. This is at the heart of the missions of cultural institutions in France, as the french official texts indicate:
The mission of the Ministry of Culture is to promote artistic creation in all its components and to enable the democratization and dissemination of cultural works.
The mission of the Ministry of Culture is to make the capital works of France and humanity in the fields of heritage, architecture, plastic arts, performing arts, cinema and communication accessible to the greatest number of people. It promotes the development of artistic works in all their components in the territories and throughout the world. It is the guarantor of artistic education.
These missions are engaged in two directions: cultural democratization, to make works accessible to the public, and cultural democracy, which consists in fostering artistic practices of audiences. These two facets of cultural policies are complementary, and in my opinion, they always benefit from being combined. There is much debate in the political and financial stakes between these two perspectives, the answer to which lies in what are now called cultural rights. This is a subject in itself, which I do not deal with here, the cultural projects I am talking about are indifferently related to both approaches.
In what way is art a lesson, no longer just a lesson of life, as so much has been said, to decorate life or because one is sculpting one’s life. Whether one aestheticizes one’s life as much as one wants, the notion of “art of living” is unfortunate: it is compromised with the renunciation of the adventurous inherent in wisdom and withdrawn into convenience. On the other hand, the demand for the dissonance that is proper to art, and which is more radically enlightened by modernity, puts the capacity for ex-existence at work from the outset, inscribing it in the sensible. In the de-coincidence, art and existence discover their common origin, and at first in opposition to “Creation”: discover that the new – the unheard of – is indeed possible, but precisely because it is not naively a beginning. Because it is the result of a disengagement and de-enclosure that keeps us out of the confinement of a world and its adapted adequacy. Or that it is by coming out of the hinges under which the possibilities are sealed, out of joint — possibilities that we did not suspect — that comes an audacity that, in its challenge, can redeploy from the infinite and allows us to finally begin. What each work of art does, in short: that the first morning of the world, then, becomes fleetingly within reach.
Dé-coincidence, où viennent d’art et l’existence ?, François Jullien, 2017 (page 136).
To summarize, François Jullien thus demonstrates that artistic creation is inherently antifragile, because art is by nature always reinventing, reinstating the first time at each of its occurrences. It is a lesson in life. The essence of artistic creation is to be adventurous, unseemly, uncoincidental.
4. Antifragility of a resolutely artistic and innovative approach to culture
Artistic creation is what cultural projects are meant to develop and disseminate, so let’s nourish ourselves on its deep logic of functioning, let’s allow it to express itself fully. Let us not seek to reduce what is the greatest strength of art: the requirement of audacity. Let’s take a risk in the cultural projects themselves, without which we would destroy the meaning of art, which we are here to defend! This audacity is precisely what will help our cultural projects to become antifragile. We can give it its name: innovation.
The approach to building a cultural project must therefore be innovative in order to be antifragile. But how can we identify that we are indeed in an attitude of boldness and innovation, and not in a race to reassure ourselves by trying to anticipate everything? How can we identify criteria to guide us? It is a question of our relationship to “error” and “uncertainty”: Do we seek to avoid uncertainty at all costs, i.e. the risk of error, or do we actively prepare to receive them in order to be enriched by them? Nassim Nicholas Taleb sums it up very well :
Mistakes make some things break, and some things don’t. Some theories fall apart, and some don’t. Innovation is precisely something that benefits from uncertainty; and some people sit back and wait for uncertainty and use it as raw material, just as our hunting ancestors did. …an ethical life is not ethical when it is free of personal risk.
Antifragile, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2018 (page 512).
We could synthesize these ideas into one formula:
Innovation is therefore not an empty word, which would mean following fashions, in a form of demagogic and often technophile headlong rush, such as making absolutely “digital” projects or systematically using “social networks” without even really knowing why.
Innovation is an approach, a method, which integrates into the heart of its process openness to the unexpected, and is enriched by it. It is an attitude of openness to what, a priori, destabilizes us and that we would tend to reject out of fear. But beware, innovation is not a simple messy Spanish inn either. An innovative project can be extremely vast and structured, but it must cultivate its agility, which lies in everyone’s attitude towards the unexpected: “it surprises me, it worries me, it destabilizes me, well I’m going to do my best to deal with it and I’m going to try to find out how I can make the most of it!
5. A method: mourning work
It is counterintuitive to accept the unexpected, because the unexpected represents the loss of what was expected. It is necessarily a disappointment at the outset, which we fight against by reflex: denial, anger, guilt, etc. We would like to be enriched by this new situation, as advocated by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, but we have to admit that our brain does not take us in this direction spontaneously, far from it.
To be able to adopt a antifragile approach, whether at an individual level or collectively (within the framework of a project), we must learn to go through the stages of mourning very often. It is usually a rather slow process, because there is little awareness of it. It is a mourning training that must be practiced in order to become more and more able to go through the stages of mourning in an agile manner. The 5 stages of mourning work are :
Shock and denial.
Acceptance (or resilience).
It’s important to know that these stages can be quite disorganized, with jumps and flashbacks, which is particularly destabilizing.
antifragility is therefore above all a real work on oneself, dynamic and difficult, because it is to be produced precisely in those moments when one is in great difficulty, when one has lost what one imagined and is caught up in one’s unpredictable reactions in the face of this loss. So, the method is to practice the work of mourning, at high speed. To go faster in mourning, so that, thanks to the resilience that the work of mourning produces, we can consider the opportunities that lie behind the loss.
In fact, antifragility is at the heart of our learning system from childhood. In his book Learning to Resist (2019), educational psychologist Olivier Houdé explains through neuroscience that from childhood and throughout life, learning and reflection are based on cognitive resistance (another way of naming antifragility):
Cognitive resistance is our brain’s ability to inhibit automatisms of thought to allow us to think But it goes far beyond that: this ability is also essential in many situations of everyday life. Indeed, we must learn to resist automatisms of thought when they are oversimplifying and dangerous.
6. A path strewn with constructive pitfalls
Preparing for the unpredictable in order to take advantage of it, in the cultural sector, means adopting, collectively and in the structure of the systems that we put in place, be it planning, technique, organisation in teams, artistic work, communication, etc., an attitude of taking distance, a less reflexive, counter-intuitive time of thinking, in short, a true algorithmic approach, which involves sharing information, combined with autonomy in decision-making.
The method to adopt this attitude, as we have just seen above, is the work of mourning, which seems to be slower to approach, but which allows us to build in reality, and not in the fantasy of what we have lost and what we would like to find again. The challenge is to get back in touch with reality as quickly as possible, which has just changed in an unpredictable and irreversible way.
This brings us to places we hadn’t anticipated. It is destabilizing at first glance, but the cultural projects will only be better, more anchored in reality, and will respond even better to their initial objectives, because they will have been able to adapt to the changing reality.
To develop antifragility in the construction and exploitation of cultural projects is to choose the path that is the least easy, the riskiest, the most agile, the least reassuring, a path of successive innovations. It is the path that will come up against the most pitfalls, but which guarantees that the project will come out of it grown and perennial.
Choosing this type of approach has profound impacts on the forms of artistic projects, working methods, professional training, management attitudes, etc. If this approach is very difficult, it is above all because it implies accepting the loss of a form of power of domination, of mastery. It implies a change in our relationship to the world, which goes against the majority ideas about effective action and organisation. Thus, it often happens that the people who weaken projects the most are the leaders themselves (artists, elected officials, directors, etc.), because they are too afraid to let go of their power. In my opinion, taking these risks is the best guarantee for building ambitious cultural projects that will fully meet their objectives in our uncertain world.
This text is the introduction to the antifragile method for cultural projects. It will be followed by other texts that will develop proposals for the field.
Thanks to Robinson Labourdette for discovering the work of Nassim Nicholas Taleb, and to Véronique Guiho-Leroux and Isabelle Altounian for their attentive rereading.
The 2020 Meitar Award for Excellence in Photography
Special COVID-19 Edition
Winner will receive a $20,000 grant for the publication of a photography book
The Meitar Award for Excellence in Photography, a collaboration between PHOTO IS:RAEL and the Zvi and Ofra Meitar Family Fund, will be awarded for the fifth time this year to a photographer whose works demonstrate excellence in the field of photography.
Following the worldwide Coronavirus pandemic, this year’s award process will feature a unique format that will adhere to the necessary restrictions without compromising its goal of supporting excellent photographers and the stories they tell, which are now more important than ever.
This year’s winner will receive a $20,000 grant for the publication of a professional photography book through BLOW UP PRESS, a Warsaw-based boutique publishing house. The winner will be announced in November 2020, and the book will be published and launched in November 2021 at the 9th International Photography Festival. During the course of that year, the winner will work on the production of the book together with PHOTO IS:RAEL’s Chief Curator and BLOW UP PRESS’ Head Designer. The book will then be distributed through various professional platforms around the world.
The winner will also receive royalties from the sale of the book.
A professional panel of judges will review all award finalists and will select a photographer who demonstrates thought, quality, originality and excellence in photography, as well as the potential to create a comprehensive body of work suitable for publication as a book. The submitted portfolios will be delivered to the panel anonymously, with no identifying markers, and will be judged based on their excellency, quality and originality.
Of the works submitted, the panelists will select 20 finalists for a group exhibition at the International Photography Festival, which will take place in November 2020 in Tel Aviv.*
David Adika, Photographer and head of the Photography Department at Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Jerusalem
Michael Benson, Founder, Candlestar/Photo London
Maya Benton, Curator, Art Historian and Visiting Professor at Yale University
Dr Susan Bright, Curator and Writer, France / UK
Krzysztof Candrowicz, Curator and Researcher
Sian Davey, Artist, UK
Mirjam Kooiman, Art Historian, writer and Curator at Foam Photography Museum, Amsterdam
Grzegorz Kosmala, Founder and Director, BLOW UP PRESS, Poland
Dafna Meitar Nechmad, The Zvi and Ofra Meitar Family Fund
Rivka Saker, Chairman of Sotheby’s Israel, Founder and board chair of ARTIS
István Virágvölgyi, Curator, Photo editor, Secretary of the Capa Grand Prize Hungary
Bob Newman, 2019 Meitar Award Finalist
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Despite constant movement, networking, exchange and an abundance of information, we rarely come into contact with the really unknown, the unexpected. Medium of photography indicates closeness and at the same time it incites disaffection. Is it possible to share the same view when viewed from a different perspective? Who we are and who are the others?
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This is a repost of today’s tweet by the British Journal of Photography. Please have a look at this wonderful list of resources.
Black Lives Matter: Anti-racism resources for the photography industry
Written by British Journal of PhotographyPublished on 5 June 2020
George Floyd’s murder has sparked global protests against racism, inequality, and police brutality. Here, we compile a growing list of books, articles, and initiatives to learn from and support
At the time of writing, people in all 50 states in the US, and 18 countries worldwide, are protesting for the Black Lives Matter movement. The demonstrations follow the murder of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on 25 May 2020, and have amplified the anger and outrage at the racism and inequality that continue to pervade all aspects of society, including the creative industries.
Here, we have compiled a growing list of educational anti-racism resources, along with petitions and initiatives to support, for those in the photography industry and outside of it. We will continue to update the list going forward; if you have any suggestions or comments, please send them to firstname.lastname@example.org. This is by no means a definitive list, but it may be a good place to start.
Mark Sealy — Decolonising the Camera: Photography in Racial Time Director of Autograph ABP Mark Sealy MBE unravels how Western photographic practice has been used as a tool for creating Eurocentric and violent visual regimes. He demands that we recognise and disrupt the ingrained racist ideologies that have tainted photography since its inception in 1839. A free chapter from the book is also available via the link above.
Antwaun Sargent — The New Black Vanguard: Photography between Art and Fashion Curator and critic Antwaun Sargent addresses the radical transformation taking place in fashion photography and art today. In his opening essay, Sargent opens up the conversation around the role of the Black body in the marketplace and the institutional barriers that have historically been an impediment to Black photographers participating more fully in the fashion and industries. The publication features 15 artist portfolios and a series of conversations between generations of practitioners.
Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa — One Wall a Web Employing a range of mediums, which include archival imagery and text, Wolukau-Wanambwa’s book questions whether the historical and contemporary realities of anti-Black and gendered violence serve to veil the essential function of violence in the maintenance of “civil” society.
Daniel C. Blight — The Image of Whiteness: Contemporary Photography and Racialization Blight introduces readers to some important extracts from the troubling story of whiteness, highlighting its falsehoods, paradoxes, and oppressive nature. This book argues that the invention and continuation of the “white race” is not just a political, social and legal phenomenon, but also a complexly visual one, and explores what photographic artists are doing to subvert and critique its power.
1619 project, The New York Times An ongoing initiative, which started in August 2019 — the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. It reframes the country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery and contributions of black Americans, at the centre of the US’s contemporary narrative.
The American Nightmare, Ibram X. Kendi for the Atlantic“We don’t see any American dream,” Malcolm X said in 1964. “We’ve experienced only the American nightmare.” A nightmare is essentially a horror story of danger, but it is not wholly a horror story. Black people experience joy, love, peace, safety. But as in any horror story, those unforgettable moments of toil, terror, and trauma have made danger essential to the black experience in racist America.
Vision and Justice: A Civic Curriculum — free ebook from Aperture Foundation edited by Sarah Lewis A free curriculum including thirty-one texts on topics ranging from civic space and memorials to the intersections of race, technology, and justice. Highlights include a wide-ranging conversation between filmmaker Ava DuVernay and cinematographer Bradford Young; an interview between Lewis and Bryan Stevenson, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative; and Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s essay on Frederick Douglass.
Do no harm: Photographing police brutality protests — free e-guide from the Authority Collective “As photographers/filmmakers, we need to ask ourselves, is this image sousveillance (from the bottom pointing up, holding power-holders and oppressors accountable) or are we furthering surveillance (from the top pointing down, adding to a history of violence and surveillance of Black, Indigenous, and POC bodies, and creating a document that can be used to further that violence)? — Filmmaker Ligaiya Romero.
A full list of resources for photographers and beyond on anti-racism from the Authority Collective can be found here.
The Authority Collective A collective of over 200 womxn, non-binary and gender expansive people of colour working in the photography, film and VR/AR industries, with a mission to empower marginalised artists.
Diversify Photo An initiative to encourage photo editors and commissioners to hire more POC photographers.
BBFA Collective Born out of a lack of representation, the Black British Female Artist Collective was created to provide a platform for the best female emerging artists of the diaspora.
Donations and Petitions
The Earth Issue’s Freedom FundraiserIn response to the murder of George Floyd and the global protests that have followed, The Earth Issue have initiated a print sale, with all proceeds to be donated to organisations in support of the Black Lives Matter movement
Photographers of Colour petition Sign this petition calling for photography industry leaders and corporations to use their platforms to speak out against the racism Black and minority photographers are facing within the industry
To donate to organisations in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, follow this link.
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An Astonishing Saga of Politics, War, and Americans Out of Place, by a National Book Award Winner!
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This week we talk interest rates, shares and house prices in 2022…
How great was it when Ash Barty became the first Aussie woman in 44 years to win the Australian Open!
Sport is funny like that – it can positively influence the nation’s mood – be it socially, economically, and even politically.
We really needed a bit of positivity too.
Newspapers for the first month of 2022 have been littered with headlines like, Interest Rates to Rise, Share Market to Take Massive Hit and Housing Boom Set to End In 2022.
It does make you start question what is really going on out there? What can we expect to happen to investment values in 2022?
I can assure you it’s not all doom and gloom like some of those headlines suggest.
The share market finished 2021 up 13 per cent while house prices finished 2021 up 22 per cent. The share market is reported on by the minute, while house prices are reported on monthly. Both have had slightly slower starts to 2022 than they did in 2021.
I think you are destined for failure and anxiety if you focus on the daily and monthly movements of investment values. It’s important to take notice but it’s more important to focus on the long-term perspective.
Will interest rates go up?
They are at a record low, so they have to go up at some point and no one truly knows when and by how much. My best guess is that they will go up by 0.5 per cent to 1.0 per cent in the next 12 to 24 months which won’t make a huge difference to most household budgets.
Will the share market crash? What about house prices?
It’s not possible for the share market and housing market to sustain 13 per cent and 22 per cent annual growth. The rate of growth has to slow down at some point. I don’t know anything about shares, but when it comes to house prices, I focus on the fact that land will be worth more in 10- and 20-years’ time than it is today (I wrote a whole chapter on my rationale for that in my book Bulletproof Investing).
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I mentioned in my last blog of 2021 that I would be doing a bunch of reading over the break, catching up on books that had been recommended to me throughout the year. My favourite was a little book called The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel.
The book explores why we have made little progress in terms of our personal finances despite centuries of literature (tens of thousands of books, in fact) dedicated to the topic. Housel concludes:
“The premise of this book is that doing well with money has little to do with how smart you are and a lot to do with how you behave. And behaviour is hard to teach, even to really smart people.”
Housel goes on to pick apart a bunch of case studies on people who have managed to do well with money – build their wealth and keep it – and those who haven’t, trying to understand what separates the two kinds.
He concludes it is not “growth or brains or insight” but instead “the ability to stick around for a long time, without wiping out or being forced to give up”.
In Bulletproof Investing I called compound growth the ‘secret sauce of investing’, a reference borrowed from Warren Buffett, who is worth $112 billion and regarded as the most successful investor of all time.
Compound growth is essentially financial speak for sticking around for a long time without selling or giving up.
The average property investor sells their property after holding it for five to six years. In a 10-year cycle house prices might double, yet 60 per cent to 80 per cent of that growth happens in just a two- to four-year window, meaning the other six to eight years have flat to modest growth.
How many investors would have sold their investment properties at the start of the pandemic, only to miss out on more than 20 per cent growth over the past 12 months?
Not surprisingly, Housel’s book also has a lot of references to Buffett. My favourite quote in the book was one he used in referencing Warren Buffet’s amazing success with money:
“Less hard but equally important is pointing out what he (Buffett) didn’t do. He didn’t get carried away with debt. He didn’t panic and sell during the 14 recessions he’s lived through… He didn’t burn himself out and quit or retire. He survived.”
That’s the attitude we should take into each day, week, and year.
Becoming financially successful is a marathon, not a sprint. Despite what you might read, there is no such thing as an overnight success story, it takes time.
Warren Buffett is worth $112 billion. Of that, $111.5 billion of his wealth was accumulated after his 50th birthday, and $109 billion after his 65th birthday.
That’s because he’s been disciplined, hasn’t got too caught up in the daily or weekly movements of investment values, and has been able to survive and hang on during the ups and downs that inevitably happen with investments.
Having said all that, I don’t think house prices will fall in the short term. We’ve never seen our housing market crash, and that’s because it’s so strong. Total housing in Australia is worth $9.6 trillion against total debt of $2.1 trillion.
The biggest risk when it comes to investing is cash flow. My rule of thumb is to make sure the cost of holding my investments, even if interest rates increased by 2 per cent, won’t exceed 10 per cent of my after-tax pay. That way, even if (when) interest rates go up, I can afford to tread water even in times where there isn’t growth in my investments.
I think that’s where we’re better off focusing our attention, rather than getting bogged down in daily and monthly movements of investment values.
My extended budget tool can help you work all those numbers out if you’re stuck!
Worth the wait?
Q – We are in the market looking for a house in Brisbane. We have pre-approval from the bank and deposit saved but haven’t found anything that suits us. We read that house prices might be going down, and more listings come onto the market later this year so wondered if we’re better off waiting for a few months?
A – First of all, there are a third less homes for sale today than the five-year average. In other words, you are not alone in finding it tough to buy a home over the past year or so.
It’s always going to be easier to talk yourself out of doing something, than into doing.
I don’t think house prices will drop. Particularly in the more affordable capital cities like Brisbane and Adelaide where houses cost 50 per cent to 60 per cent of what they cost in Sydney, and yet household incomes in those cities aren’t 50 per cent to 60 per cent of Sydney incomes. That’s why we’re seeing record interstate migration in those cities.
I think you should do what you can, while you can. No one knows what’s around the corner.
We could see it become harder to get loans, meaning you’re able to borrow less in a few months’ time. We could see prices continue to go up, meaning you need more savings for a deposit. The home you were looking for might get listed in the next couple of weeks. You get my point…
If I were you, I’d hang in there and keep persisting in your search. Good luck!
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Largest U.S. city to declare bankruptcy now faces uncertain future
Corey Williams And Ed White, The Associated PressPublished: Friday, July 19, 2013
Orr's team of financial experts said that proposal was Detroit's one shot to permanently fix its fiscal problems. The team said Detroit was defaulting on about $2.5 billion in unsecured debt to "conserve cash" for police, fire and other services.
"Despite Mr. Orr's best efforts, he has been unable to reach a restructuring plan with the city's creditors," the governor wrote. "I therefore agree that the only feasible path to a stable and solid Detroit is to file for bankruptcy protection."
Detroit's budget deficit is believed to be more than $380 million. Orr has said long-term debt was more than $14 billion
and could be between $17 billion and $20 billion.
Orr's decision to file now may have been influenced by lawsuits filed by some city workers and retirement systems to prevent Snyder from approving a bankruptcy request from the emergency manager, said Detroitarea turnaround specialist James McTevia.
They have argued that bankruptcy could change pension and retiree benefits, which are guaranteed under state law.
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A bankruptcy judge will stay all the litigation, McTevia said.

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I did a couple of DIY Christmas cards this year. One using very traditional colors, and the other more modern. I like them both!
DIY Christmas Cards: Traditional
The manger? A pre-made envelope. Genius, right! I will show you how I created it!
- David Tutera™ Celebrate A2 Card and Envelope Set: Kraft Deco Value Pack
- David Tutera™ Celebrate Mini Cards: Butterfly Design (envelope only)
- Core’dinations Tim Holtz® Kraft-Core™ Shattered Collection™ 6 x 6 Paper Pack
- Sewing Machine
- Circle Craft Punch
- Star Craft Punch
- Oval Craft Punch
Step One: Cut Kraft-Core Shattered cardstock into 3/4″ strips. Adhere strips on card base and trim to fit flush with the top of the card.
Step Two: Machine stitch perimeter of card with sewing machine and white thread.
Step Three: Cut mini envelope into manger shape as shown:
Step Five: Computer generate card sentiment. Cut into a long strip. Cut ends of strip into pennant shape. Trim both ends, and adhere underneath the card sentiment to create a banner. Round corners of sentiment piece and end pieces as shown.
Step Six: Adhere star shapes as shown.
DIY Christmas Cards: Modern
The second card I made was inspired by some vintage Christmas fabric and is more of a modern style.
- Core’dinations Core Couture Glitter™ 4.25 x 5.5 Paper Pack
- Core’dinations White 4.25 x 5.5 Blank Cards and Envelopes
- Core’dinations® 8.5×11 Vellum Paper: Printable Transparent Paper Sheets
- Darice Polka Dots Embossing Folder
- Darice Assorted Stars Embossing Folder
- Silver Bead
- Pink and White String
- Sewing Machine
- Silhouette Electronic Cutting Machine
Step One: Emboss a green sheet from the Core-dinations Core Couture Glitter pack using a star embossing folder. This paper pack is pre-glittered! The glitter is wonderful and does NOT flake off of the paper. It also cuts well in my Silhouette, and looks fantastic when embossed. Adhere embossed paper to white card base. You can see the fabulous glitter paper closer up here:
Step Three: Using an electronic cutting machine, cut out the letters “J,Y” from the pink cardstock in the paper pack. Cut six 2″ circles from the blue paper in the paper pack.
Step Four: Fold each blue circle in half, and glue them together back to back. Adhere to vellum strip. Adhere letters to both sides of the ornament as shown.
Step Five: String silver bead with pink and white string. Adhere bow to top of the card, and adhere the bead to the top of the ornament.
Which of these two DIY Christmas cards do you like best?
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Shaunte is a 30-something, chocolate-loving, SAHM from Utah. She has been scrapbooking since 1997, the dreaded era of photos cropped with deco scissors. Since then, her work has evolved into a clean, linear, photo-focused style. Her favorite subjects to scrap are her husband and five kids (never a lack for subject material there).


An MQ-4C Triton Unmanned Aircraft System — previously known as the Broad Area Maritime System (BAMS) — took to the air for the first time Wednesday, completing an 80-minute flight around southern California.
The aircraft, developed from Northrop Grumman’ s Global Hawk unmanned aircraft system, reached an altitude of 20,000 feet during the flight in restricted airspace near Palmdale, Calif., according to a press release from the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR).
The event marked the start of several months of flight tests in California. This fall, the aircraft will move to the Navy’s aircraft test facility at Patuxent River, Md., where several BAMS-D demonstrator aircraft have been flying.
The aircraft is expected to reach its initial operational capability in 2016.


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I got there a little after 10 myself after finishing up at the 716ers game and saw the Teasers guitarist, Parker Greenman, out front and caught up with him a little bit as the Runaways played. It wasn't long before we were joined by my friend Ashley, former lead singer of several groups, and Aimee. We all did some catching up until the Runaways finished their set upon which Aimee, Parker, and bassist Tony Truscio joined Brian on stage to set up. By the time I got a drink, they were just about to get started and I worked my way through the crowd a few rows from the stage. They mixed in some of the songs they'd been doing for most of their time together with a few newer songs. They even brought up Ashley to help out on "Heartbreaker" and then got Carrie G up for a song as well.
|Parker, Aimee, and Brian|
|Aimee and Tony rocking it just like old times|
|Carrie G joins the Teasers for a song|
Overall, the reunion was a huge success for everyone involved. The Teasers showed they still had the magic that won them awards as WNY's Best Pop-Rock Band and Carrie G and the Runaways picked up a lot of new fans. The Lockport Pub also cashed in bigtime on the night as, despite long waits for drinks by many fans, they actually ran out of a lot of their well drinks.
While it's doubtful that we'll get the Teasers to re-form again for good (and I heard several people wanting them to), hopefully they'll find the time to put together some more reunions from time to time.


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Photo by Nuna @vetiverana
Musician Catherine Moan is new to the Philly scene, but making a splash around town. Most notably as a frequent performer on bills at venues like Ortlieb's in Northern Liberties and as a signee of Born Losers Records. Our good friend Danielle Johnson ran into her recently at Jackson Inn, a Wilmington, DE venue, where they traded some words that began this interview. Johnson followed up with Angel, the person behind the moniker Catherine Moan, for an in-depth chat about their process and unconventional relationship with performance.
CM: My name is Angel, my pronouns are She/They and I was raised in Mount Laurel, New Jersey!
CVZ: You told me at Jackson Inn you only recently started writing and recording yourself. What age was your first music release and what inspired it?
CM: Yes! So my first music release was this song called "Love Bites." I had been dabbling with making beats and little loops for the past year and in the middle of 2019 winter I felt that first electric shock of emotion/inspiration whatever you would call it to transfer a feeling into a song. The sound was very inspired by slower paced pop songs with a synth/overdriven electronic sound. I found a crunchy electronic timbre really conveyed a certain type of emotion. Writing that first song really got a ball rolling and it became an obsession to write music, and I will not stop.
CVZ: What pushed you to get onstage?
CM: I was pushed by the desire to influence people to dance and experience loud intoxicating tunes, sharing links to songs on social media can only get you so far. Up until my first performance I was a very reserved and shy person. It took me years just to build up the courage to sing into a mic alone in my bedroom. So the transition to on-stage was terrifying, to put it mildly. It felt imperative to me to see if my music connected with people in person, and a core reason I even make music is because I like the way it affects your body and mind. The phrase "breaking the ice" really comes to mind when recollecting the experience of my first onstage experience. I was trembling with fear because literally it was something I never did before. Things were shakey during the first song, but eventually I loosened up and got so hypnotized by the fun of dancing in time to my own songs and getting people to dance blasting through loud monitors.
CVZ: Is your name a nod to The L Word?
CM: WOW. That connection didn't even click in my brain. I wish I could retroactively say yes, that is what it means. The name comes from a conceptual yearning, inspired by a juxtaposition of catholic ideas of virginity & celibacy against an inherent queer sexual desire that can unravel faith. Also, it sounds kinda cool.
Photo by Nuna @vetiverana
CVZ: What's your song writing process like?
CM: My song writing process is kind of like putting together puzzle pieces. Usually I start off with an 8 bar jingle and mumble gibberish and freestyle until a good verse/chorus comes to me. I run around my room messing with all my instruments, sit in the shower humming melodies and lyric ideas, and sometimes just write lots of stupid goofy rhymes in a notebook. And only if I'm dancing to my beat and have it stuck in my head all day will I know it's time to sit down and put in the work to put it all together into a cohesive song! There are quite a few songs that never got finished because they just didn't give me that intense feeling of excitement.
CVZ: What can we look forward to from you?
CM: Right now I just have my new song called "Soda Pop"! For the next year or two I really want to wind down and refocus myself musically. It's always been about fun, play, and experimentation to me, and I don't want to lose sight of that. It might be a long time before I put out another release, but you can bet I'll be hopping all around singing and dancing on stages. I can't get enough of that.
CVZ: What Philly bands or artists should we check out?
CM: Some of my fav local bands right now are: Mesh, Korine, Total Rubbish, Horse Divorce, and Cheeky.
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IG: @catherinemoan_ Twitter: @catherinexmoan

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Last month, Vivo had unveiled the Vivo X27 and Vivo X27 Pro smartphones in China. Whereas the Vivo X27 smartphone has been in the world for purchase in the country, the Chinese company has just started with the pre-orders of the X27 Pro phone. The shipments of the pre-ordered units will begin in the home market on April 18.
Vivo X27 Pro Price tag
The Vivo X27 Pro ships in a single version featuring 8 GB of RAM and 256 GB of original storage. It carries a price tag tag of 3,998 Yuan (~$595). The smartphone is out there in color options like Black Pearl and White. The Sd 675 SoC powered Vivo X27 versions these types of as 8 GB RAM + 256 GB storage and 8 GB RAM + 128 GB memory are respectively selling for 3,598 Yuan (~$535) and 3,198 Yuan (~$476) in China.
Vivo X27 Pro Specifications and Features
The Vivo X27 Pro houses a behemoth Super AMOLED screen of 6.7 inches. The 20.5:9 tall aspect ratio panel of the phone produces full HD+ resolution of 2246 x 1080 pixels. It is supplied with sixth-generation in-display fingerprint reader. The handset offers a screen-to-body ratio of 91.2 percent.
The Snapdragon 710 mobile platform drives the Vivo X27 Pro smartphone. There is with no microSD card tray on the device. It is preinstalled with the most recent Android 9 Pie Operation system that is overlaid with FunTouch 9 UI. It comes with Jovi AI assistant from Vivo and it moreover marks Multi Turbo for accelerated GPU and CPU overall performance for optimized gaming performance.
The motorized pop-up selfie camera module has an LED flash and a 32-megapixel lens. The back screen of the phone options a vertical triple camera item. It contains a 48-megapixel primary camera, a 13-megapixel ultra wide-angle lens as secondary scanner and a 2-megapixel depth scanner.
The Vivo X27 Pro is packed with a 4,000mAh battery that supports 22.5W FlashCharge rapid charging through USB-C. Few of the another features of the smartphone include things like 3.5mm audio jack, NFC and audio chip. There is no confirmation on whether the X27 Pro phone will be made in the world outside of China.


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NEW YORK — Practically one particular thirty day period right after, there is soreness encompassing gun violence and renewed outrage above an issue that has an effect on millions of individuals: food items insecurity.
On Buffalo’s east facet, the predominantly Black community fought for decades to get the entire-company grocery shop.
As CBS2’s Lisa Rozner investigates, the inequitable accessibility to healthy and reasonably priced foods is a little something that far more than two dozen neighborhoods in New York City encounter each and every day.
In some pieces of the Bronx, there are much more than 35 bodegas for every grocery store, according to the city’s Food stuff Plan Middle.
In Large Bridge, the Latino Pastoral Action Centre hands out 40 bins of fresh fruits and veggies inside minutes.
“The only affordable retail store all-around listed here is the Relatives Greenback,” resident Andre Horton mentioned.
Inside a Dollar Tree, subsequent to a grocery store, Rozner discovered people stocking up on eggs, which are situated at the base of the frozen foodstuff section.
Throughout the aisle at eye level are processed foodstuff like macaroni and cheese. With inflation, Pastor Esteban Rivera says constituents with food stamps are battling.
“For a one human being, they get below $200. They say by the 15th, 16th of the month they are out of meals stamps,” Rivera stated.
The shaded areas on the map earlier mentioned suggest in which access to contemporary, healthful food is constrained. Across the five boroughs, 10 neighborhoods have far more than 25 bodegas to every supermarket, and practically 20 neighborhoods have upwards of 15 bodegas to each supermarket. Most of the corner suppliers are the very best option for performing family members. They preserve large sugar food items like sweet and chips prominently exhibited.
“And that is what is actually open up when they get residence from the 2nd or 3rd position,” stated Nicholas Freudenberg, director of CUNY Urban Food items Plan Institute.
The U.S. Office of Agriculture refers to neighborhoods wherever junk food stuff options inundate healthy possibilities as “food items swamps.”
“Food deserts” are areas where by at least one-third of the population is additional than fifty percent a mile from the nearest supermarket. In Buffalo, the Tops grocery store filled that gap until eventually the attack previous month. It has been shut because.
“This could have been any neighborhood,” explained Rev. Dr. David Jefferson of Metropolitan Baptist Church. “I believe that we want more supermarkets, but like Dr. King claimed, give men and women obtain to more supermarkets, but they never have income to invest in foodstuff.”
“There are distinctive food stuff methods for inadequate people today,” Freudenberg reported. “For case in point, our University of General public Health is found in Central Harlem. A Whole Food items opening in Central Harlem did not for most Harlem residents improve their food alternatives because the rate position at Full Food items was not within just their price range.”
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Food stuff policy experts say accessibility just isn’t normally the challenge. Educating the group about what foodstuff are more healthy is also a problem.
“We did a research at our institute, wanting at the prevalence of avenue degree, unhealthy food items advertising, the billboards and indications, and we identified that the ratio of harmful foodstuff to healthier foods was twice as superior in the South Bronx and Harlem,” Freudenberg claimed.
In New York Town, Bronx Is effective has partnered with 8 supermarkets and bodegas to improve visibility of healthy solutions with signage and featuring grocery keep tours.
Other initiatives consist of hundreds of New York Metropolis green carts offering fruits and veggies at a diminished price tag.
High Bridge resident Brenda Gibson reported it costs “$1.50 for the entire large pack.”
The $39 million “hub” is beneath construction in Hunts Issue and is envisioned to improve the city’s distribution of fresh new food to places in have to have from 2 million pounds a calendar year to 20 million. A system termed Fresh new gives tax incentives for opening a new grocery store.
“So if the mayor ended up to come to you these days and say, what do I have to have to adjust?” Rozner stated.
“Every single of those applications, you have stated desires to be ever more funded and brought to scale,” Freudenberg said. “Appear for methods to choose on unhealthy foodstuff entrepreneurs. I would endorse producing positive that there have been public drinking fountains in each park, in each individual university. Just a number of companies regulate the large bulk of our food offer, so the federal government could do a greater occupation of enforcing the legislation all over monopoly.”
He explained money requirements to be poured into the root of dilemma — escalating entry to housing and work, introducing subsidies are not the answer, but for now, those people partnerships are how men and women are acquiring by.
There is condition laws that has been introduced that would avert quick meals companies from advertising and marketing unhealthy food in public spaces.
Meanwhile, in Buffalo, the Tops grocery store is expected to reopen by the end of July. Given that past month’s taking pictures, people have been getting a shuttle bus the supermarket chain provided to get to a different location.

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