The Weekly Diary
A better camera won't do a thing for you if you don't have anything in your head or in your heart
The 2nd edition of The Weekly Diary is here. This week Substack presented Chat — a new space for writers and creators to communicate and converse with their community. I love it and am currently working on implementing it in my newsletter.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy the rest of your Sunday and looking forward to presenting you with new stuff here very soon.
Images of the week
Some Say Ice
At age nine, Alessandra Sanguinetti stumbled across a copy of Michael Lesy’s Wisconsin Death Trip on the bookshelves of her family’s home in Buenos Aires. The macabre, cult classic of historical non-fiction, first published in 1973, portrays Black River Falls and its environs at the turn of the 20th Century. Interweaving contemporaneous images from photographer Charles Van Schaick with clippings from local newspapers and other ephemera, the book offers a harrowing depiction of strange goings on in the rural Midwest.
Alessandra Sanguinetti talks to Allie Haeusslein about her new book Some Say Ice by MACK.
Josef Chladek
One of the best collections of photo books on the internet I have come across in a long time — josefchladek.com — an amazing resource and absolute goldmine for collectors and photo book lovers.
Monuments by Alan Gignoux & Chloe Juno
Opencast coal mining has led to the destruction of hundreds of German villages over the last century. Germany has promised to phase out coal by 2038, but extraction continues, and the future of several villages hangs in the balance. Combining Alan Gignoux’s photographs of abandoned houses and Chloe Juno’s images of the personal belongings left behind by departing families, Monuments documents and commemorates communities in North-Rhine Westphalia earmarked for demolition.
LIFE — A career retrospective of internationally renowned social documentary photographer, Ian Beesley
Bluecoat Press, long established publisher of photographic books and highly regarded monographs of leading British photojournalists and social documentary photographers including John Bulmer, Marilyn Stafford, Peter Dench, Bert Hardy, Chris Hunt, Paul Trevor and Patrick Ward, recently launched a Kickstarter for the first ever career retrospective of internationally acclaimed photographer, Ian Beesley.
More books
Sofa Projects by Colin Pantall
An emotive photographic project by Colin Pantall.
The Point of the Deliverance by Alex Boyd
A collection of works made using the antique wet-plate collodion process charting the ancient Atlantic coastlines and mountains of Scotland and Ireland. With many images never seen or exhibited before, The Point of The Deliverance is a unique visual record of the Irish and Scottish coastline as experienced through the eyes of an itinerant photographer, making a pilgrimage to the very edges of the Celtic world.
Padanistan by Tomaso Clavarino
In the past thirty years the word Padania has become part of everyday life in Italy. It refers to an area in Northern Italy that extends from the Alps to the Adriatic Sea. A territory that exists in the ideas of many, but that geographically, culturally and juridically remains undefined.
Quicker Than Coal Ash by Will Warasila
“Bitterness will kill you quicker than coal ash.” The people of Walnut Cove, North Carolina live in the shadow of Duke Energy’s Belews Creek Steam Station, where toxic coal ash is kept in a massive unlined storage pond, and toxins are pumped into the air, water, and soil. Will Warasila spent a year and a half getting to know the residents, the landscape, the structures of energy and power.
That’s it for this 2nd edition of The Weekly Diary — a shorter more frequent newsletter for subscribers of Nowhere Diary.
If you have any suggestions for interviews, features, topics, interesting work or books that I should check out, don’t hesitate to reach out!
Keep shooting and stay safe.
Kim
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Love the words love the curation!
Thanks for putting this together, Kim. Really impressive work.