"I adore photography, taking photographs holding my camera, choosing my frame, playing with the light. I love living with people, observing communities, and now animals, trees, and rocks too. It is a need that comes from deep inside me. It is the desire to photograph that always drives me to leave again, to go and look elsewhere. Constantly to be taking more new images." -Sebastiao Salgado, From my Land to the Planet

I joined a sea urchin harvesting adventure at Salt Point out of curiosity. I wanted to taste uni from our ocean. It was there that I learned how purple sea urchins, native to this coast, have grown so numerous that they are beginning to unsettle the balance of the reef. Sea urchins are not invasive. They have always been part of our waters. For a long time, their numbers were kept in balance by sea otters moving through the kelp and by abalone sharing the slow work of grazing

"In Japanese crafts, pottery for example, there is an emphasis on the nobility of the process, with the repetitive nature of making a pot again and again leading to perfection. Hirayama is, admittedly, no craftsman, he cleans and maintains restrooms in Tokyo – which are works of art in themselves – but he nevertheless approaches the task with the same eye for detail, pride and dedication with which a master potter approaches ceramics. You know, the potter’s secret is doing it

"American" by Edward Hopper, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, 2024 Found this article after reading Wim Wenders’ The Pixels of Paul Cézanne and seeing Edward Hopper’s American at MFA Houston. I’ve never thought of Hopper as an influence on my favourite filmmakers—Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmusch, David Lynch. But there is a consistency in what draws me to their work: the isolation, the imagery, the silence. I’m beginning to see Hopper’s presence there, in the way space and time are al