
Snaps – July 2013
We’re both wholly unaccomplished photographers, and any quality that any of our pictures possess is due much more to our camera than to our own endeavours. Nonetheless, at the end of each month, we’ll post ten-ish photographs that might help to provide some sort of narrative arc for those of you who’d like to follow...

So good they named it twice
The room’s not much: just a thin storefront with strip lighting, a dozen seats around a couple of tables, photographs on the wall and fridges at the back. Show up too early – 8.30pm, say – and you might find it empty. If anyone’s here, they’re either deep in conversation at the table to the...

Looking up
Rio is an assault on the senses, but not necessarily for the reasons we were expecting. It’s not the crowds or the streetlife, which are of a piece with busier European cities; it’s not the noise, which goes on into the night – music, conversation, particularly dogs – but isn’t really oppressive; and it’s not...