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upstate

These are part of multiple ongoing projects about farms in upstate New York.

Some photos were published a while back alongside a brilliant audio piece by Aurora Almendral on WNYC.

Many of these were taken before Christmas but have been sitting around neglected until now, the slow and cold season. Time to organize catalogs, rework websites and find those hidden missing gems.

Kelley's Pond

india and southeast asia

“...the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They don’t deceive you with thrills and trick endings. They don’t surprise you with the unforeseen. They are as familiar as the house you live in. Or the smell of your lover’s skin. You know how they end, yet you listen as though you don’t. In the way that although you know that one day you will die, you live as though you won’t. In the Great Stories you know who lives, who dies, who finds love, who doesn’t. And yet you want to know again.

That is their mystery and their magic.” ― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things