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A human. "An Archive of Longings," ~ Susan Sontag

For all its immersive elements at the art of M.C. Escher exhibition in Montreal, designed by Italian firm Arthemisia, and curated by the Italian Escher scholar Federico Giudiceandrea, seeing the original woodcuts, retained their impact, many breathtaking | Montreal, Quebec
At the art of M.C. Escher exhibition in Montreal, designed by Italian firm Arthemisia, and curated by the Italian Escher scholar Federico Giudiceandrea. | Montreal, Quebec
At the art of M.C. Escher exhibition in Montreal, designed by Italian firm Arthemisia, and curated by the Italian Escher scholar Federico Giudiceandrea.
"Zitkala-Sa was then in Earlham College, Indiana, and she attained a reputation as an orator. In one contest, the Indian girl was grossly insulted by a crowd of college men who threw a white flag at her feet, with a rough, hideous drawing of an Indian girl, and 'squaw' printed beneath it." - The Boston Journal, April 8, 1900.
Ah Yes, back in Canada. PangJi Guilin Nouilles, authentic Southern Chinese cuisine, 🍜 noodles to die for, on Rue Sainte-Catherine, highly recommend. Merci Montreal!
Grateful that ‘Blanket Toss Under Midnight Sun’ (2019) is now earning royalty checks, small ones, but still, that means the photobook has earned out its advance (sold enough copies to cover the entire $20,000 advance). Photobooks are always niche so it means a lot, especially being even more niche, Indigenous archival photography.
north bay museum: ‘In recognition of the North Bay Museum’s role to preserve and advocate for the heritage and resilience of our Northern community, we wish to show the greatest respect to our fellow Northern communities affected by the ongoing wildfires. For this reason, after much consideration, we are moving forward with our planned exhibit opening of People of the Watershed: Photographs by John Macfie on 1 August, 6:30 - 8:00 PM. This exhibit celebrates life in Northern Indigenous communities of the Hudson’s Bay watershed and showcases First Nations’ multigenerational land stewardship which prevented catastrophic wildfires. We feel that in such extraordinary times, we must not only learn from the past but realise our profound capacity to persevere in the present.’
Protect Trans Kids | 20th arrondissement | iPhone 17 Pro with Leica Lux Grip
3rd arrondissement | iPhone 17 pro with Leica Lux Grip
Heading home, to Saskatoon for a bit, I do miss that river, those skies, places I know, even things I don't like, I will apologize to all my dead plants. Maybe one of them, like Argos, will still be alive in the studio and hanging on after two months. I will water it.
Interior from Pop Wuj/PopVuh. The Mayan Sacred Book. 63 watercolours by artist Jesus Mora, interpreted by Paul Seesequasis. With the support of Ontario Arts Council, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the Leon Levy Foundation. Available in three limited collector’s editions, hardcover, slip cover and soft cover, through Blurb Books. Images and text © Jesus Mora, © Paul Seesequasis. Pre-orders available. Won't speak to my translation, but Mora's art is amazing.
A young man, part of Bill Cody’s performance troupe, The Wild West Show, poses in a Paris studio during the 1889 World Exposition, wearing a quill vest. From the collection of Roland Bonaparte, Roland was the son of Lucien Bonaparte, Napoleon’s younger brother. Roland’s desire to join the military was denied by a French law prohibiting any of the Bonaparte family or clan from serving in the army, so he turned to science and photography. He compiled a series of portraits, nearly 100, of all the Native American performers at the 1889 World Exposition. © Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac
Parks, full of children, families, people reading, flowers, greenery, in walking distance, slightly bewitched by the 20th arrondissement, flirtatious stage but could be love.
Another of my favourites at Père Lachaise cemetery, the flat stone of Mano Solo, born Emmanuel Cabut (1963-2010), ‘French singer-songwriter, painter, and writer whose work blended chanson, rock, punk, and folk influences with intensely personal lyrics … one of the most distinctive voices in French alternative music during the 1990s,’ most tourists walk on by, but locals remember, by the flowers and notes left on the stone. And he’s beside one of my favourites, Sophie de Grouchy (1764-1822).
The understated tomb of symbolist poet and political activist Pierre Quillard (1864–1912), a contemporary with Stéphane Mallarmé and Paul Verlaine, Quillard was also an activist, bringing attention to the Armenian genocide by the Ottoman Empire, as well as standing with the defenders of Alfred Dreyfus, during the Dreyfus Affair. Someone has left a small white flower. | Cimetière du Père-Lachaise
Time has erased the name, the woman still mourns | Cimetière du Père-Lachaise | Fujifilm X-E5
Studio portrait of a young man, part of Bill Cody’s performance troupe, 'The Wild West Show', poses in a Paris studio during the 1889 World Exposition. The bone hairpipe beads stand out. From the collection of Roland Bonaparte, Roland was the son of Lucien Bonaparte, Napoleon’s younger brother. Roland’s desire to join the military was denied by a French law prohibiting any of the Bonaparte family or clan from serving in the army, so he turned to science and photography. He compiled a series of portraits of all the Native American performers at the 1889 World Exposition. © Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac
One noticeable difference, for North Americans, going to a 🎥 movie in France is you have the choice between ordering sugar or salt popcorn, I stuck with salt this time but next time will be more adventurous.
‘Keep on Truckin’’: Another of Legrady’s photographs from 1973. Charles Bobbish, Gordon Neacappo, Stephen Lameboy and John Pashagumeskum (Cree), Fort George, Quebec, 1973 📷 © George Legrady
Rusty Cheezo and Kenneth Gilpin in a canoe. Photographed near the Cree community of Eastmain in northern Quebec. Legrady was a young photographer in Montreal when he met Billy Diamond, later Chief and a Cree political leader, at a bar. Diamond invited him to come north to photograph in the James Bay communities. Legrady stayed for months. There were big political things at work at the time.
Early weekday screening beat the crowds #odyessy, last night couldn’t get in. Gambetta, 20th arrondissement
Fascinating to watch the culture wars erupt around Nolan's 'Odyssey,' and also Wilson's translation, as she points out 'heros' (hero) in original Greek is warrior, there is no virtue implied, no Marvel Comic virtue, Odysseus gets all his men killed, and, as he boasts "I sacked the town and killed the men, We took their wives...' yes he's dealing with what we would probably call PSTD and guilt, why he tends to drugs, and it also gets at a whole thing about 'warrior culture' that the ancient bards were bang on right. Show me a veteran who isn't deeply traumatized at some level.
Martine Gutierrez - Wunderkind, at Huis Marseille, Amsterdam's first photography museum, 27.06.2026 — 18.10.2026, born of an American woman and Guatemalan Mayan father, her life is perpetual performance, 'revealing the foundations of an artistic practice rooted in the continuous construction and deconstruction of the self.' Highly Recommend.
Studio portrait of Wild West troupe member, 13-year-old Traveller (Iga-she)[sic], standing in profile and leaning against a chair. Photographed by Roland Bonaparte during the 1889 Paris World Exposition. He is the son of Village-Maker (Dahvagaki Zingra [sic] and Beautiful Hill (Va shesh-na-bé [sic], who were also in the traveling troupe. | © Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac collections
Queue for Nolan’s The Odyssey at the local cinema, Gambatti, 20th arrondissement, goes around the corner, it will be a decade to get in, will wander, seek new side quests, and try again tomorrow, and the day after that, and…..
École Duperré, established in 1864 by Élisa Lemonnier, it was a novel institution for its time, providing professional artistic education for women. Today, focusing on design, it’s at the top of Parisian public fashion schools.
It's been 16 years Spain. One more win. !Ole! | And yes, NW should be ready for Argentina.
“The times we live in are indeed alarming. It is a time of the most appalling escalation of violence — violence to the environment, both ‘nature’ and ‘culture’; violence to all living beings… It is also a time of triumphant mediocrity.” - Susan Sontag | Photo: Richard Avedon, New York City, April 10, 1978.
Image 1: Angijukuluga Olluriaq Manning wearing an amauti with the beadwork done by her father Peter Pitseolak. Photo: Dr. John Murie | Image 2: Portrait of photographer Aggeok Pitseolak ~ (Inuk) ~ Cape Dorset, Nunavut c1948. Amauti sewn for her by husband and photographer Peter Pitseolak. Photo: Peter Pitseolak or possibly self portrait by Aggeok. [CMoH][C: Janet Murie]
City Hall, Gambetta Square. In October 1870, with Paris surrounded by Prussian forces, after the defeat of Napoleon III at Sedan, Léon Gambetta (1838–1882) volunteered to leave the besieged capital on October 7, 1870, in a hydrogen balloon, ascending above the encircling Prussian forces and reaching Tours, to organize resistance against the occupying Prussians. Likely the only politician to escape a besieged capital by balloon to continue governing a nation.
My current hood, Gambetta 20th arrondissement, traditionally a very working class area of Paris, there are far fewer tourists here, the closest attraction is Père-Lachaise cemetery, where there’s some gentrification happening, here it’s chill, I’m liking it here, people relaxing after a day’s work.
Art of translation: love this timeless, relevant, passage from Introduction, by Emily Wilson: 'When Polydamas warns (Hector of Troy) that a Trojan attack on the Greek Ships is destined to be unsuccessful, as a bird sign (from an eagle) has shown, Hector insists on pushing ahead, dismissing the portents and declaring, "Patriotism is the one true bird."
Life in Paris | Interior | Paris Fashion Weeks | 📷 © Meyabe | Ofr. Paris
Life in Paris reflected | 20 eme Gambetta
My lovely dinner companion, a fan of Moroccan cuisine, strikes a pose at the Enfants Rouges market, Paris.
amn, it’s raining, like real rain, wet drops on the skin, just indescribably delicious, after a month of hot 🌞 | 20th arrondissement
A familiar face greets me at the place I’m staying. Hedi Slimane‘s portrait of Lou Reed.
Princess White Deer (Esther Louise Georgette Deer) 'The Original Princess White Deer, the Only Dancing American Indian Girl. Hamburg: Lith. Adolph Friedländer, ca. 1913 (no. 6044)' | original lithograph poster, auctioned on Sotheby's to a private collector | 'Deer was a spokesperson and activist for Native American causes, including the American Indian Defense Association.' - from Sotheby's description. — in Paris, France.
Arts et Métiers, designed by Belgian artist François Schuiten, working with writer Benoît Peeters, is my fav Metro stop in Paris, inspired by Jules Verne’s Nautilus, I have expect to see giant tentacles 🦑 outside the ports.
I’ve discovered and laid claim to Samuel De Champlain’s home in Paris. Not being a cruel man, he and his wife are given a week to vacate, From here I will establish a trading post and I shall obtain a commission to “search for a free passage by which to reach the country called China.” | 📷 George Legrady
The queue outside @shakespeareandcoparis for Patti Smith signing, just as I finished filming the signing stopped, as Patti had to rest before her evening show in Paris. People disappointed of course but understanding.
During the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962), French photographer Marc Garanger was drafted and deployed to the Sid Brouni Regroupment Camp. There he photographed 2000 Algerian women, faces uncovered as French soldiers watched. “Their only way of protesting was through their look. They were firing at me with their eyes.” In 1982, Garanger published ‘Femmes Algeriénnes 1960’ and in 2004 Garanger returned to Algeria, and photographed some of the women still alive. Collaboration: A Potential History Of Photography.
Department Store, Mobile, Alabama, 1956 | Photo: Gordon Parks | © Gordon Parks Foundation
Have spent significant time at The American Library in Paris, if you're looking for a place to work, research, I highly recommend, great staff, great place to focus. And no, I don't boycott 'all things American,' if you're not paying attention, Canada is hardly a model of virtue re its policies toward the earth. Anyways, here is their 2026 longlist: (ps- the Baldwin biography is a masterpiece). Baldwin: A Love Story by Nicholas Boggs Becoming George: The Invention of George Sand by Fiona Sampson First Emancipation: The Forgotten History of Abolition in Revolutionary France by Jeremy D. Popkin Fractured France: A Journey through a Divided Nation by Andrew Hussey Hotel Exile: Paris in the Shadow of War by Jane Rogoyska My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein: A Fiction by Deborah Levy Riverwork by Lisa Robertson Rousseau’s Lost Children by Gavin McCrea The Typewriter and the Guillotine: An American Journalist, a German Serial Killer, and Paris on the Eve of WWII by Mark Braude A Vast Horizon: Artists and Lovers, Freedom and War by Anna Thomasson
Also gotten into the 17th rhythm now, tomorrow is Sunday, if you want a bottle of wine, pick it up before 1pm, the market here and stores close then too, the evening families are in the parks, family time, chill.
After a month of seven flights of stairs, several times daily, I feel I have the thighs of Maradona, the calves of Messi, feel I could climb Mount Zeus without braking a sweat, and commune with the gods (I won’t mention the first two weeks here). | 17th arrondissement
At plus 35 Celsius, the speckled tree-covered pathways in Paris become the walks, the shade, the hint of breeze, the gentle light. | Leica Sofort 2
At Retrographia, opposite the BnF Richelieu, browsing through old engravings and prints, a sea of volumes below me under the glass floor. Thumbing through art history, found two I wanted, another favourite Parisian nook.
Translator Emily Watson in photo: Nolan has cited Wilson’s work as one of many inspirations for his forthcoming film — specifically her version of the opening line, “Tell me about a complicated man.” I talked to Wilson about the upcoming adaptation, the political controversies surrounding her work, and why people get so heated when it comes to The Odyssey.
Paris Notes: The Marais has many little passage ways, my favourite is Passage Molière, with two of my favourite paper and notebook stores, L’Ecrioire, for European stationary, and MiSAKi iiNUMA, which is the best little Japanese paper and notebook store in Paris | 📷 Leica Sofort 2, my favourite point and shoot camera
ven if your touristing dead graves, cimetière du Père-Lachaise is immense, many places to sit and read a book, listen to music, even at 32 celsius, it feels much cooler, water spouts around to splash yourself, refill , many steps, great for walks or runs, where the living mingle with the dead. Highly recommend. Oh, if you're grave hunting, a hint, just wander, you'll discover fascinating people besides Wilde, Colette, Morrison, Chopin, etc. Think outside the map.
Here on May 28, 1871, during the final hours of the Semaine sanglante (“Bloody Week”), 147 captured Communards were lined up against this wall and executed by firing squad. They were buried in a mass grave below where I’m standing, hundreds were executed elsewhere. Paris Commune | Fufifilm X-E5 | Cimetière du Père-Lachaise
A troupe member, part of Bill Cody’s 'Wild West Show', poses in Paris, France, during the 1889 World Exposition. Part of the Roland Bonaparte collection. Bonaparte photographed roughly 100 Native American performers (mostly Oglala) in 1889 in Paris, a number have been identified, this one is among the anonymous, as yet. © Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac
Tomb of Théodore Sivel, a naval officer and Gaston Tissandier, scientist and balloonist, on April 1875, the balloon Le Zénith rose over Paris, with three crew members, to over 8,000 metres, lacking supplemental oxygen, all three crew members lost consciousness, only engineer Joseph Crocé-Spinelli regained consciousness. Sculpted by Achille Dumilâtre, what is especially touching (though you can’t see it from my camera angle) is both men are holding hands for eternity. | Fujifilm X-E5
The understated tomb of Sophie de Grouchy, 1764-1822, a major intellectual of the French Enlightenment, wife of the mathematician and philosopher Marquis de Condorcet, her Letters on Sympathy developed an original moral philosophy, the host of one of Paris’s most influential salons, where leading thinkers of the Revolution gathered and sister of Emmanuel de Grouchy, Napoleon’s last Marshal. Someone has left a portrait on her tomb.
Pop Wuj/ Popol Vuh. A narrative of the Mayan Sacred book Pop Wuj/ Popol Vuh. 63 watercolours made by Jesus Mora illustrate a version interpreted by Paul Seesequasis. A project supported by Ontario Arts Council, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and Leon Levy Foundation. pop wuj / popol vuh acuarelas, available now in three collector’s editions, hardcover, slip cover and soft cover. Online. Blurb Books.
8pm in the 17th arrondissement | streets empty, stores closed, market closed, a work day tomorrow, sound of doves by my window 🕊️| Leica
Martín Chambi self-portrait in his Cuzco, Peru studio in 1925. “The meticulous attire is a reflection of the subject’s social ascent: a Quechua Indian of a campesino family, born in a small village, who on his own merits has risen to be a prestigious professional in the most important town in the region.” - Horacio Fernández © Jan Mulder Collection
The most popular Canadian in Paris, by far. | 17th arrondissement
pain au charbon (charcoal baguette) is my new morning love ❤️