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Month: January 2023

Who owns copyright of these pictures

Posted on 24 January 2023 by ilagardien

I would like to use some of these pictures to accompany something I am working on. Can someone please help me find owners of copyright.

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Picture of the Day: Paris Metro

Posted on 14 January 202314 January 2023 by ilagardien
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Picture of the Day. Piazza Novona

Posted on 13 January 2023 by ilagardien
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More iPhone blues… Where’s my Nikon DSLR?

Posted on 13 January 202313 January 2023 by ilagardien

As I start turning my attention to Istanbul, I recall some of the pictures I made in that great city and how I wish I had used a my Nikon DSLR. There is no comparison. The first picture was was made at breakfast – from inside of the Turkish Kitchen – and the second later…

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Istanbul: Slices of the City

Posted on 12 January 202312 January 2023 by ilagardien

This city captured my imagination several years ago. I have returned often, the last time being the 2019 Istanbul Biennale, The Seventh Continent. I put together some photographs of Galata Bridge and the colours and flavours of this great city. There is so much more to this city, which I hope to explore in greater…

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The View From Here

Posted on 11 January 2023 by ilagardien

I was sent on assignment; wrestling at Wembley hall, Turfontein in the south of Johannesburg. Submitted this pic. Was considered inappropriate for publication.

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Parisian Painter

Posted on 11 January 2023 by ilagardien

I couldn’t resist making this rather cliched picture.

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Rive Gauche

Posted on 11 January 2023 by ilagardien

Kisses on Rive Gauche. 14 February 1994. My favourite TRI-X. Before all this confusion of cameras that require a damn PhD in science to operate. Nobody does it normally

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Year of the Central Bank

Posted on 11 January 202311 January 2023 by ilagardien

It is probably well known that my interests straddle (global) political economy, the humanities and social sciences, and flirtations with photography. With global political economy (in my Business Day columns) I take on a fairly stable, yet heterodox position. My Daily Maverick columns are more polemical, in the sense that I play in the traffic…

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Photograph of the Day 11 January 2023

Posted on 11 January 2023 by ilagardien
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RSS Financial Times

  • Beijing’s new infrastructure binds Hong Kong to mainland
  • Wall Street warns of riskiest US debt limit showdown since 2011
  • Jerusalem synagogue shooting leaves 7 dead
  • Geography is (almost) everything
  • US stocks tick upwards to end week higher

RSS Branko Milanovic Personal Blog

  • Not a new Xi
                In today’s Financial Times Ruchir Sharma has a very nice article about the recent readjustments in China’s policies: discontinuation of zero-covid restrictions, stronger support for globalization, and a nod toward the private sector.  As the title (“The Xi nobody saw coming”) says, Sharma sees them as a sudden and […]
  • The book of the dead: Victor Serge's Notebooks 1936-47
            Born to Russian anti-Czarist emigrés in Belgium in 1890 => engaged in revolutionary anarchist activity as a teenager in France => condemned to five years in jail at 17 => expelled to Spain => exchanged for French soldiers held by the Bolsheviks in 1919 => joined the Bolsheviks => participated in the Civil […]
  • Four historico-ideological theories about the origin of the current war in Ukraine (Part II)
                 The third view about the origins of the conflict looks at the roots of the current nationalism. It starts from the historical events of 1989-1992 which led to the fall of communism. The fall of communism was not precipitated by democratic revolutions as is often claimed in the popular narrative in the […]
  • Four historico-ideological theories about the origin of the current war in Ukraine (part I)
                 The first and the most popular theory sees the war as a war between democracy and autocracy. It is based on a premise that Russia is run by a dictator and that Ukraine is run by a president who is popularly elected. That view however neglects a number of facts including that […]
  • A boy’s obsession with football in the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia
    When I was a young boy, I was obsessed with football (soccer). What are the sociological and political origins of this obsession and what political role football played in Titoist Yugoslavia, I’ll leave for another post. This is just a story of boys—or rather of a boy—and of the love of the game. I would […]

RSS BBC World News

  • Community reckons with police killing by black officers
  • Jerusalem synagogue attack: Seven killed in shooting
  • Auckland floods: New Zealand city declares emergency after torrential rain
  • Ukraine war: UN accuses Russia of breaking child protection rules over refugees
  • US to make it easier for gay men to donate blood

RSS Channelnews Asia

  • How to become a morning exercise person
  • Auckland starts clean-up after torrential rains, flash floods
  • North Korea slams United States for pledging tanks to Ukraine
  • Harsh winter adds to hardship in Afghanistan against backdrop of humanitarian crisis
  • Ake earns Man City 1-0 FA Cup win over Premier League leaders Arsenal

RSS Singapore Straits Times

  • Oregon man accused of torture may be using dating apps to avoid capture
  • Yoshimitsu Yamada, who brought aikido to the US, dies at 84
  • US secures deal with Netherlands, Japan on China chip export limit: Bloomberg
  • Top French university bans use of ChatGPT to prevent plagiarism
  • US police release video that shows Memphis cops kicking, beating Tyre Nichols
  • Man who assaulted Capitol police officer Sicknick sentenced to 80 months in prison
  • While You Were Sleeping: 5 stories you might have missed, Jan 28
  • Ukraine war: Fighting heats up in east, north after tank pledges
  • Ukraine says pilots would need six months for F-16 combat training
  • US police release footage of hammer assailant striking Pelosi's husband

RSS Business Times

  • Daily Debrief: What Happened Today
    Stories you might have missed
  • Daily Debrief: What happened today
    Stories you might have missed
  • Strong demand for tech talent in Singapore despite global Big Tech layoffs: Josephine Teo
    DEMAND for tech talent in Singapore is still strong despite global layoffs by tech giants, while both Singaporeans and the government remain keen on opportunities in tech, said Minister for Communications and Information Josephine Teo at the launch of a tech talent training programme on Thursday (Jan 26).
  • Singapore Q1 manufacturing outlook gloomy; electronics rebound likely temporary, say analysts
    SINGAPORE’S manufacturing outlook in the first quarter is likely to remain gloomy, after factory output in December shrank for the third straight month, economists said.
  • Changes to Singapore’s FDI tax strategy may come only after Budget 2023
    GLOBAL tax changes could prompt Singapore to find new ways to attract foreign direct investment (FDI), such as tax credit schemes, grants, or industry-specific measures – but this may only happen after Budget 2023, said industry watchers.

RSS The Economist

  • Business
  • Politics
  • KAL’s cartoon
  • This week’s cover
    How we saw the world
  • Business

RSS Malay Mail

  • Rafizi says targeted subsidy mechanism will improve Malaysia’s fiscal position
  • Pakatan leaders deny Malays in Penang sidelined by housing allocation, as Perikatan continues attack on HDB plan
  • Unity in fragmented world: Takeaways from the World Economic Forum 2023 — Tengku Zafrul Aziz

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Anti-G8 and Anti-War Graffiti in Geneva 2003

Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003
Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003
Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003
Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003
Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003
Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003
Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003
Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003
Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003
Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003

Bastakiya, Dubai 2012

Workers. Heads bowed down in the heat

Verona

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