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...Every Afghan has a story about corruption. The electronics store owner in my old neighborhood in the capital, Kabul, hasn't had electricity for the past year, because he refuses to pay the $400 bribe required to secure a connection to the electrical grid. The scarcity of so many basic necessities allows petty corruption to flourish in many corners of the world without necessarily feeding an insurgency. But Afghanistan's corruption is intimately linked to a culture of violence. The driver of an Afghan friend was picked up one day by the police, beaten, stripped naked and left outside...
Best not to bother Dan Maccallum on Grand Prix day. On March 16, as the cars lined up on the grid in Melbourne, the Sydney solicitor and father of two began his season's viewing in exactly the way he has always done: no one but him in the house, and a large Supreme pizza delivered just before the start of the race. "I was rude to my family in the morning," he says. "I reminded them that they'd promised to go away for a couple of hours in the afternoon." What does he love about F1? Screaming engines...
...Mississippi governor with strong ties to the GOP power grid...
...bright or colorful. The prints’ muted palettes and subdued use of light make them a refreshing change from the generally overstated photographs of today’s books and newspapers.“Copperheads,” a series of 100 photographs in a 10 by 10 grid, is perhaps the most striking work in the exhibition. The exhibit’s curatorial notes suggest that these images are “like poisonous landscapes, aerial views of step mines, or shots of the surface of the moon.” From a distance, they do look like...
...says Molesworth. “[Davey’s] earliest work, the ‘Copperheads,’ uses the camera to look very closely at something that’s traditionally not seen in a very rigorous way through the use of image and grid, while her most recent work is much more poetic, loose, and playful.”“It’s not really a conscious decision, but clearly it’s a preoccupation because those are the images I end up choosing,” Davey says of time?...