European Food Is Not Making You Thin, Walking Is
There’s a thing Americans say, usually right after a week in Italy, and it goes something like this: European food is just *cleaner*. No corn syrup. No dye number whatever. That’s why nobody over…
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Qatari and Turkish Funding of European Islamist Networks: An Open-Source Assessment of the Protest Link
The assertion that pro-Palestinian street mobilisation in European cities is organised and financed by Qatar and Turkey is usually made without reference to what open sources can and cannot establish…
Qatar and Turkey Funded the Infrastructure Behind Europe’s Palestine Protests
I don’t like conspiracy arguments and I don’t make them. When someone tells me a crowd is fake, or that a movement has a single hand behind it, my instinct is that they’ve mistaken agreement for…
Why Comporta Still Feels Empty: The Rice Estate Behind Portugal’s Most Coveted Beaches
Everybody has found Comporta by now. The remarkable thing is that you can’t tell from the road. The drive explains most of it. You leave Lisbon, cross the Sado, and within an hour you’re moving…
Red Strappy Sandals and a Red Mini Bag: What to Buy to Copy This Look
Everything in this outfit is deliberately boring except two things, and that is the whole trick. Light-wash high-waisted skinny jeans, a slouchy olive tee tucked loosely at the front, and then red…
The Photo Walk as Brand Activation: Twenty Attendees, Hundreds of Assets, and Almost No Media Spend
Twenty people are standing on a retail pavement with cameras around their necks. Behind them, a shopfront. To the right, a landscaped strip and a railing. They arrived because somebody posted a…
Him, Her: A Photograph That Works Like a Renaissance Diptych
Two figures share a photograph and refuse to share anything else. He stands on the left in a black suit, glasses, mid-sentence, addressing someone outside the frame. She stands on the right in a black…
MoMA's Cubist Salon: Why the Museum Crowded a Wall It Spent Decades Emptying
A dozen people in winter coats stand with their backs to the camera while a guide talks. Above and behind them, eleven or twelve paintings crowd a single wall in two and three loose tiers, tondos…
Morning Class: A Photograph That Works Like a Frieze
Eight people stand on a wooden deck above a beach, bent forward at the waist with their hands reaching for their mats. Behind them the sand runs to a flat sea and a pergola with birds along its beam…
Why 1960s Saint-Tropez Black and White Photos Are So Addictive
Everyone has seen these pictures even if they couldn’t name a single photographer who took them. Bardot barefoot on the quay. A crowd of nobodies in sunglasses outside a café. A car with the doors…