In December 2020 I found myself spending my first "Pandemic Christmas" in Bulgaria out of necessity to meet a few criteria necessary to travel onwards (via Istanbul) to the USA....
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I've heard from many of my friends that the C19 pandemic lockdowns for them represented a process of reconnection in some way. Some took the time to get back into reading, other...
I recently spent about eight hours in Istanbul during a stopover between my flights from Bulgaria to my onward travel to the United States. I made it into the terminal at just a...
2 April, 2021
Parking Lot Hockey on Ilford HP5+ – by Simon King
Rest days give me a lot of stress, especially when I feel I've been unproductive, so no matter how hard I try to give myself time off I inevitably end up doing something to make...
11 March, 2021
How I Lost the Washington Monument – by Simon King
Despite how far I feel I've come both personally and professionally over the last few years there are still times where I'm really knocked back a step, and reminded just how muc...
Snow is my absolute favourite weather, even when it inconveniences me it's worth it in so many ways, and I've never once not been happy to be out in it. However, I haven't had m...
6 February, 2021
5 Frames From 2020 – a More Personal Retrospective – by Simon King
As many of you frequent readers may know, the focus of a lot of my work in 2020 was on capturing some of the chaotic fallout from all of the various political, medical, and soci...
24 January, 2021
“Bardo: Summer of ’20” – a Photozine – by New Exit Group
I always told myself that my first publication would be representative of a large body of personal work, something only I could have produced after a few years of working on a p...