Tag: Photo

Atmospheric Froth

Irene Cunningham

I think what makes this image is the remnant of the old popular fashion emporium – What Every Woman Wants. What a statement to leave in an empty building. I snapped the pic from a moving bus, realising that they were about to demolish the block. Memories of Glasgow, a derelict tenement on Argyle St which has been replaced. That sang, Space, to me. It was manipulated slightly on PicsArt. Most cities/towns will be different for our grandchildren, not the same environment we grew up in. In my late teens I bought a new dress every weekend from there for a pound, and danced the evening away up in the Sauchiehall St night-clubs.

Irene Cunningham has had many poems in many magazines and anthologies over the decades. In 2019, Hedgehog Press published, SANDMEN: A Space Odyssey, a poetry conversation with Diana Devlin. In 2022, Dreich Press published her first solo chapbook, No Country for Old Woman. She moved to Brighton last year.

terrible ghost

bedfordtowers

This photo was taken on a walk after a concert in Brooklyn New York a few months ago. When I was thinking about which photographs would fit with the theme of Empty Space, I picked this one because I believe it captures the feeling of the empty NYC streets that are usually filled with cars and people. Instead the streets are occupied by the rain and the occasional pedestrian.

bedfordtowers is a film photographer based in Scranton Pennsylvania. He has worked with musicians in New York City and Los Angeles and has been published in over a dozen magazines and zines.

Into the Void (Glasgow, 2018)

Ignatius Primadi

When I arrived in Glasgow, I started the trip by visiting Necropolis and ended the day in The Lighthouse. I was awed by the city gloom, the architecture of the city of the dead, and the lifeless ambiance. To some extent, The Lighthouse was empty but charming. I could feel the dullness of the void. Yet, I could also embrace the beauty of the spiral staircase. Most importantly, the silence reminded me of mortality. 

These elements really fill the hollow of the Lighthouse from top to bottom or vice versa, depending on your perspective.

Ignatius Primadi is a mundane and reflective writer who enjoys visual poetry and has written personal poems since 2008. Fond of romanticism, his imagination is influenced by music, photography and science. 

Larnaca Bay, March 2021

Ilias Tsagas

Ilias Tsagas is a Greek poet writing in English and in Greek. His poems have appeared at the Sand Journal, The Shanghai Literary Review, streetcake magazine, Tint Journal, the Away With Words Anthology (Vol 4) and elsewhere. He was also a runner-up at the Briefly Write Poetry Prize 2021.

Two Photos

Lila Kahn

Lila Kahn is a photographer, illustrator, and designer from Oakland, California. She has always been fascinated by the expressiveness of landscapes, both natural and human-made, and aims to explore that quality through her art. When she is not creating, you can find her cooking, thinking about the cosmos, or trying to befriend a neighborhood cat.

Two Photos

Fabrice Poussin

Too Far

Safe

Fabrice Poussin teaches French and English at Shorter University. Author of novels and poetry, his work has appeared in Kestrel, Symposium, The Chimes, and many other magazines. His photography has been published in The Front Porch Review, the San Pedro River Review as well as other publications. 

Three Photos

Sarah Leavesley

a space as wide as the sky

“Being outside with a sense of space and open sky reminds me that my part in this world may be small but that I am part of it”

city frowns

“It can be easy to vilify cities in environmental terms when they may in fact play some positive roles (reducing long commutes and some transportation pollution). Important questions remain though: are our cities as environmentally friendly as they could be? And are those at the helm paying enough attention to this?”

before whole worlds disappear

“William Blake saw “…a World in a Grain of Sand | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower” (‘Auguries of Innocence’). Each small creature reminds me of how many worlds we could lose through climate damage and species extinction”

Sarah Leavesley is a prize-winning photographer and writer, whose current work draws heavily on nature and environmental concerns. See more on her website.

Three Photos

Chlo

“We are currently living through the greatest mass extinction in history. Air pollution is already the biggest killer we face. I am a burden on the environment, and so are you, and I will never forgive either of us. There will never be an excuse for not doing more, or doing less – less animal products, less flying and less consumption. Don’t let apathy define our species, be the change. Our home is on fire and I refuse to bring a child into the blaze. For your loved ones and the other species who call Earth home, go vegan.”

The Hopeful Captive

But when it rains, it pours

Cows love, love cows

Chlo is a committed environmental activist and has been vegan for nine years.

The Road to Heaven

Sambhu Nath Banerjee

“Way back in 1962, Rachel Carson cautioned in her book Silent Spring, about the ill effects of pesticides on the environment. The title was inspired by a line from the ballad by John Keats ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’. The burgeoning world population poses the gravest threat for our mother earth. More people create more demand for agricultural and industrial products, more fuel consumption leading to increased entropy and erratic climatic changes. It is high time that we curb the population growth and go back to the lap of nature for the cleaner air, land and water, which would sustain our future generation.

Light so bright
Dazzles the tower
And the sky
Like glittering gold!

A sight so lovely –
Wraps me with
Joy profusely
As I behold.”

Sambhu Nath Banerjee (Ph.D. from University of Calcutta) is associated with the Department of Plant Physiology (Ag), CU as a Guest Faculty. He has a great passion for travelling, writing and photography. He writes on diverse topics like Nivedita, Satyajit Ray and films. His poems have been published in Muse India and Borderless.

Alone Along the River

Louella Lester

Louella Lester is a writer & amateur photographer in Winnipeg, Canada. Her Flash-CNF book, Glass Bricks (At Bay Press) is just out. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Daily Drunk, Dribble Drabble, The Odd Magazine, Shorts, Grey Sparrow, Six Sentences, New Flash Fiction, Spelk, and a variety of other journals & anthologies. Louella’s blog, Through Camera & Pen, can be found here and she posts photos daily on Instagram (@louellalester).