Scrupulous research, long journeys and exhausting expectations. He has covered many areas of conflict, including Beirut, Cambodia, the Philippines, the Gulf War, the former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, and Tibet. His career was launched when he crossed the Pakistan border into rebel-controlled Afghanistan, before Russian invasion. After working at a newspaper, he left for India to freelance. Here, he learned to watch …
Read More »THE GREATEST WAR PHOTOGRAPHER IN THE WORLD – Robert Capa: If your photographs are not good enough, you are not close enough.
Achieving powerfull effect, through strong connection for people. For him, the truth was the best image, the best propaganda. There are times when it is not always easy to stand aside, except to record the suffering around. ROBERT CAPA was famous for his recklessness. His reports bear witness to five different war conflicts: the Spanish civil war, the second Sino-Japanese …
Read More »WHEN TIME STANDS STILL INTO A PHOTO – Dorothea Lange: People do not realize it. Life begins to crumble on its edges.
The camera, an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. In 1940, an image was exhibited at The Museum of Modern Art: Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California. At the time, DOROTHEA LANGE was working as a photographer for a Depression-era government agency. She was born in Hoboken (New Jersey, U.S), into a May day, 1895, becoming American documentary …
Read More »WHERE THEY INVENTED CRICKET, TO HAVE IDEA OF ETERNITY – From Arbroath to Dalston, following the creative vein of four special people.
Traveling where you too will say, “I’m leaving because the weather is too good”. Born on a March day, 1865 in Sunderland, she was the daughter of a Presbyterian minister from Scotland. She is seen as a forerunner of a Scottish renaissance in inter-war poetry. Her prose writings were mainly in standard English. MARION ANGUS was a Scottish poet who …
Read More »CONSTANT INNOVATION, REBELLIOUS FEMININITY AND SKILL – Christopher Kane: From a graduate collection to a luxury fashion label.
A unique talent, inspired by the abstract and the personal, the sleek and the subversive. Fashion is like eating, you should not stick to the same menu. As Edith Head she had say, “You can have anything you want in life, if you dress for it.” Of course, you need to remember clothes mean nothing, until someone lives in them, …
Read More »THE FAMILY PRODUCT OF CLERICAL AND SOCIAL REFORMER MEN – Marion Angus: Broaden horizons through reading, even when traveling abroad.
Even when her wit was mordant, she had a capacious and most generous heart. Sunderland is a city at the mouth of the River Wear. There are 77 commemorative blue plaques spread out across the city, which mark buildings, places of interest or influential people. Creating something is a powerful form of self-expression, and it can influence other people. The …
Read More »SINGING WITH A BEAUTY STYLE, UNCOMPROMISINGLY – Isobel Campbell: Creating bittersweet and ironic song writing.
A dream that’s in your head, suddenly become something that’s on tape Unusual ways to spark song writing creativity? It would be interesting to learn more about what “creativity” really is. Even if you had a good idea to start from, also a song can born from whatever came to your mind, during that time. You need waiting to write …
Read More »AN ARCHAIC VISION OF A GOLDEN AGE OF INNOCENCE – Edward Calvert, British printmaker and painter.
Growing into Brotherhood of the Ancients. All things make Dalston a great place to explore. Looking for fried chicken and cocktail Chick ’n’ Sours restaurant http://www.chicknsours.co.uk/ waiting for you at 390 Kingsland Rd. Generally fills up with artsy types on a Friday or Saturday night. In theatre-light east London, situated in the Turkish community in Dalston, the Arcola Theatre https://www.arcolatheatre.com/ …
Read More »PROUD OF RIDICULOUSNESS, LOOKING FOR SURREALISM – Four shades of Belgian creativity, from Leefdaal to Kortrijk.
Travel where not only people give what they have, but also what they are. Based on our more years of art itinerary experience, we place a premium on value your creative satisfaction. Our Author’s Travels you offers themed-tours to different destinations around the world. Make your travel art masterpiece, moving you around the creative men and woman life’s experiences. Traveling …
Read More »EMOTION HINTS, AND EMPHASIS ON SEXUALITY – Ann Demeulemeester: If I do not try new things, then I am not pushing myself.
Working with an artist, drawing inspiration from an androgynous singer. Local specialities include Kalletaart (apple cake with Calvados), Peperbollen and chocolate little beguines. The French called it Courtrai. The Roman name (Cortoriacum) meant in Latin the settlement near the curb in the river. Its name later evolved to Cortrycke, Cortryck and Kortrijk, a Belgian city in the Flemish province of …
Read More »HYGIENE AND THE ASSASSIN – Amélie Nothomb: When you need to be very hungry to write.
The only thing that beauty will bring to you is terror of losing it. The capital of Belgium is a place with stunning architecture packed into every street and alleyway. A special multi-layered atmosphere makes Brussels a great city to visit. At the centre of the Grand Place, waiting for you the beautiful 15th Century city hall. The square is …
Read More »SOMETHING ELSE WILL CONVINCE YOU: THAT VOICE – Selah Sue: Tackles battle with depression head on, through songs.
Torments and concerns of youth, reggae and soul. It features two medieval churches and a 17th-century castle. Before 1977, it used to be one of the biggest villages in the region. Leefdaal is a small town in central Belgium, in the Flemish Brabant. The restaraunt Bertem Brug http://www.bertembrug.be/ offers excellent local cuisine at reasonable prices. The staff is friendly and …
Read More »FLUENCY OF LINE, RHYTHMIC COMPOSITION AND EXPRESSIVE INTENSITY – Rogier van der Weyden: Religious works, secular paintings and wonderful portraits.
Becoming immortal, using a broad range of colours. Cathedral of Our Lady is one of the most striking architectural marvels you will encounter in Tournai www.tournai.be, offering a mix of Romanesque and Gothic designs. Its centerpiece is the Shrine of Our Lady (a 1205 gold-sculpted reliquary). Among the collection the Museum of Fine Arts holds today, are paintings from the …
Read More »FIRST THINK WHERE GO, THEN FIND RIGHT PEOPLE – Ludwigshafen, Berlin and Hamburg: art itinerary with four special Germans.
Germany, where small creativity amounts add up to something bigger. This city is full of history and culture. Charming Ludwigshafen is build on the port west bank of the Rhine River. In its Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, you will see a wonderfull paintings collection of Mondrian, Kandinsky and Andy Warhol. Bodenseeufer https://www.bodensee.de/region/untersee-hegau/konstanz,is a nature reserve located on Lake Constance, where you will find …
Read More »PURE, UNDERSTATED FASHION DESIGNS – Jil Sander, a Minimalist German fashion designer.
The “Queen of Less” by the fashion industry. Hamburg residential quarters on Zollkanal, now protected as a World Heritage Site, you can offer Speicherstadt, the City of Warehouses, with an atmosphere all its own, where to walk through red-brick canyons. North of the Reeperbahn for a walk, looking for its walls coated in graffiti. You will come across unusual shops. …
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