towards a better future?

Rather than entailing any sacrifice to our lifestyles, this would bring huge benefits. People would reclaim time for personal and family life. They would commute less and enjoy healthier modes of travelling such as walking, cycling and boating. Supermarket shopping would cede to a resurgence in local stores, making town centres more individual and boosting local communities. All this would transform urban and rural living, and provide more tranquil space for reflection, as well as opportunities for sensual experience now denied by harried travel and work routines. These revised ideas of the “good life” might also inspire less-developed countries to reconsider the conventions and goals of development, enabling them to avoid some of the less desirable consequences of the current model.

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H/T: econospeak

‘Camera Lucida’

I just read this book, and it’s blowing my mind. It’s a very personal, existential, sad and honest look at the state of photography as it was in Barthes’ time. I think that it is still very relevant at a fundamental level to any photographer who aspires to the title of ‘Artist’. I will read it again and update here as to the exact reasons why.