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Portuguese Shadows and Silhouettes
Before going to Lisbon, I had seen an intimidating number of photographs of Sintra. They're almost always of the same things (that staircase at Quinta da Regaleira, Pena Palace atop a hill, coloured...
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Lisbon, Portugal
My friends tell me I take too long to show them photographs. It feels as if I went to Portugal more than a few months ago, and I haven't taken many photos (save favours for friends - pictures of...
View ArticleA Very Short Blog Post
1. I have an article up at King's Review on Michael Gove and lithographs from the First World War. You should read it, and you should also look at the other articles on the website (and buy a copy of...
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Melbourne Now (Eight Months Ago)
These pictures are from the NGV's Melbourne Now exhibition, which I visited when I was in Australia in January. I've been feeling quite insecure about photography recently, and I don't know if...
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The Southbank Centre's Festival of Love, London
I wrote an essay, slightly more personal and slightly less academic than usual, about the Southbank Centre's Festival of Love, and my friend Melisa Trujillo drew some pictures for it. My essay looks at...
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Some Photographs from Paris
I am living in Paris again, as a visiting student at the École Normale Supérieure, until next summer. It's wonderful so far! I thought I would put a few photographs on this blog, though I haven't...
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Wai-O-Tapu Thermal Wonderland in Summer
It was too hot at Wai-O-Tapu Thermal Wonderland, really, and too crowded. I hadn't been in years, though, and it was nice to see so many different colours of water and rock and mud. It was interesting,...
View ArticleI have a website!
As of last week, I have a proper website: www.annakateblair.com. It has links to articles I've written and photographs I've taken, and I'm hoping it will give me a little more confidence emailing...
View Article100 Days of Public Scrutiny
I'm terrified of showing people anything I do (writing or photography) before it's been approved by some external body, and this kind of gets in the way of things — I'm afraid of sending enquiries or...
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Hawksmoor's Follies, Castle Howard, 2011
Taken on my (now broken) half-frame film camera.
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Sheep at Castle Howard, 2011
This is another photo taken with my now-broken half-frame film camera.
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Le Progrès, 2014
I took this photograph in November last year, at about five pm. It's so strange, now that it's light until after eight, to think of how dark it was in winter.I had a short story accepted this morning;...
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Paul Géraldy, in L'Architecture Vivante, 1925
P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; }“But, he asked the president of the commission, by what criteria should we recognise that a work is modern? It is that which resembles nothing else, he responded to him.On...
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